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Availability of fossiliferous sediment from the Red Hills Road Cave (late Pleistocene), Jamaica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Stephen K. Donovan
Stephen K. Donovan*
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica
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The purpose of this note is to record the availability for research of highly fossiliferous sediment from a late Pleistocene terrestrial deposit in the Caribbean. The Red Hills Road cave in the parish of St. Andrew, northwest of Kingston, Jamaica (for more precise locality information, see Donovan et al., 1995, p. 12-15) is a late Pleistocene, essentially unstratified, cave deposit. The terrestrial fauna from this site includes diverse vertebrates (Savage, 1990; D.A. McFarlane and R.D.E. MacPhee, research in progress) and gastropods, associated with rare arthropods including millipedes (Donovan and Veltkamp, 1994), isopods, ostracodes and claws of non-marine crustaceans (J. S. H. Collins, research in progress).

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 71 , Issue 2 , March 1997 , pp. 351
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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References

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