Indian Cave (Pleistocene to of Turks and Caicos Islands)

Where: Middle Caicos, Turks and Caicos Islands (21.8° N, 71.8° W: paleocoordinates 21.8° N, 71.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene to Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Steadman, Franza and Co. in 1998

• University of Florida

Primary reference: R. Franz, L. A. Carlson, R. D. Owen and D. Steadman. 2001. Fossil tortoises from the Turks and Caicos Islands, B.W.I. Proceedings of the 8th Symposium on the Natural History of the Bahamas 27-31 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 190750: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 16.12.2017, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Aves
 Charadriiformes - Scolopacidae
Gallinago kakuki2 Steadman and Takano 2016 snipe
Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Chelonoidis alburyorum1 Franz and Franz 2009 turtle