Dairy Cave, Dry Harbour (Holocene of Jamaica)

Where: Jamaica (18.5° N, 77.4° W: paleocoordinates 18.5° N, 77.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by H.E. Anthony in 1920; reposited in the AMNH

Primary reference: S. L. Olson and D. W. Steadman. 1977. A new genus of flightless ibis (Threskiornithidae) and other fossil birds from cave deposits in Jamaica. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 90:447-457 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194073: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.06.2018, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Crocodylia -
Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842 crocodilian
3 teeth (Morgan 1993)
Aves
 Caprimulgiformes - Caprimulgidae
Siphonorhis americana Linnaeus 1758 Jamaican pauraque
 Strigiformes - Strigidae
"Speotyto cf. cunicularia" = Athene cunicularia
"Speotyto cf. cunicularia" = Athene cunicularia Molina 1782 burrowing owl