Title

A Second Pre-Wisconsinan Locality for the Extinct Jamaican Rodent, Clidomys (Rodentia: Heptaxodontidae)

Authors

Donald A. McFarlane, Claremont McKenna College; Pitzer College; Scripps CollegeFollow
Joyce Lundberg, Carleton UniversityFollow
Clare Flemming
Ross D. E. MacPhee
Stein-Erik Lauritzen, University of BergenFollow

Document Type

Article

Department

WM Keck Science

Publication Date

12-1998

Abstract

Clidomys is the most distinctive but least well known member of the late Quaternary terrestrial mammal fauna of Jamaica. Here we report the second dated locality for this genus. The Illinoisan age we report further strengthens arguments we have made elsewhere, that Clidomys represents an early - probably pre-Wisconsinan - extinction that contrasts with the growing record of Holocene extinctions in the Antilles.

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Recommended Citation

McFarlane, D.A., J. Lundberg, C.E. Flemming, R.D.E. MacPhee, and S.E. Lauritzen. "A second Pre-Wisconsinan locality for the extinct Jamaican rodent, Clidomys (Rodentia: Heptaxodontidae)." Caribbean Journal of Science 34 (1998): 315-317.