Where: Cuba (22.8° N, 80.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene to Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• Although there are no direct radiometric dates for this site, the nature of the associated fauna and degree of mineralization are similar to deposits elsewhere in Cuba assigned to the Quaternary that range from late Pleistocene to middle Holocene.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: sinkhole; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: S. L. Olson and W. Suárez. 2008. A fossil cranium of the Cuban macaw Ara tricolor (Aves: Psittacidae) from Villa Clara Province, Cuba. Caribbean Journal of Science 44:287-290 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 194488: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.06.2018
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
Tigrisoma mexicanum Swainson 1834 bare-throated tiger-heron | |
Ara tricolor Bechstein 1811 Cuban macaw |