scholarly journals Late Quaternary Fossil Mammals from the Cayman Islands, West Indies

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (428) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary S. Morgan ◽  
Ross D.E. Macphee ◽  
Roseina Woods ◽  
Samuel T. Turvey
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Cayman Islands ◽  
Fossil Mammals

Coastal Morphology and Late Quaternary History, Cayman Islands, West Indies

1983 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. D. Woodroffe ◽  
D. R. Stoddart ◽  
R. S. Harmon ◽  
T. Spencer
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Cayman Islands ◽  
Present Level ◽  
Last Interglacial ◽  
Coastal Morphology ◽  
Western Atlantic ◽  
Grand Cayman ◽  
Western Caribbean ◽  
Quaternary History

AbstractInstrumental surveys of coastal profiles in the Cayman Islands, western Caribbean, reveal the presence of a horizontal erosional bench at +1.9 m on Grand Cayman and a deep horizontal notch at +6.4 m on Cayman Brac, but no raised erosional features on Little Cayman. Each island is surrounded by a horizontal constructional raised reef, usually below +2 m, here dated by U-series methods as 124,000 ± 8000 yr old, and hence broadly contemporary with other western Atlantic raised reefs of similar elevations. The different raised erosional features indicate independent vertical tectonic movement of the three islands, predating the formation of the raised reef. The accordance and horizontality of the raised reef indicates stability of the islands since the last interglacial times. An erosional notch at present sea level has formed since the sea reached its present level less than 2100 B.P., and algal benches on exposed coasts are also in equilibrium with present conditions.

Diaporthe citri. [Distribution map].

1978 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Central America ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Ivory Coast ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Cayman Islands ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Entre Rios ◽  
New Distribution

Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Diaporthe citri Wolf. Hosts: Citrus spp. Information is given on the geographical distribution in AFRICA, Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rhodesia, Senegal, South Africa, Tunisia, Zambia, ASIA, Cambodia, China (Szechuan), India (Uttar Pradesh), Indonesia (Java), Iraq, Israel, Japan, Korea, Pakistan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, USSR (Republic of Georgia), AUSTRALASIA & OCEANIA, Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, Hawaii, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Samoa (Am.), EUROPE, Azores, Cyprus, Greece (Crete), Italy (incl. Sicily), Portugal, Spain, NORTH AMERICA, Mexico, USA, CENTRAL AMERICA & WEST INDIES, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Panama, Puerto Rico, St. Vincent, Trinidad, SOUTH AMERICA, Argentina (Tucuman, Corrientes, Entre Rios), Brazil (Sao Paulo, Minas Gerais, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, Espirito Santo), Chile, Guyana, Paraguay, Surinam, Uruguay, Venezuela.

Verticillium theobromae. [Distribution map].

1979 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Central America ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
West Indies ◽  
New South ◽  
Cape Verde ◽  
Cayman Islands ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
South Wales ◽  
New Distribution

Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Verticillium theobromae (Turc.) Mason & Hughes. Hosts: on Banana (Musa). Information is given on the geographical distribution in AFRICA, Angola, Cameroon, Canary Islands, Cape Verde Islands, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Libya, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rhodesia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, ASIA, India (MP), Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Thailand, Yemen, AUSTRALASIA & OCEANIA, Australia (Queensland, New South Wales), Fiji, EUROPE, Azores, Cyprus, Greece (Crete), Italy, NORTH AMERICA, Bermuda, CENTRAL AMERICA & WEST INDIES, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, French, Antilles, Grenada, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Panama, Puerto Rico, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Trinidad, SOUTH AMERICA, Brazil (San Paulo, Minas Gerais, Espirito Santo), Bolivia, Colombia, Guyana, Peru, Venezuela.

scholarly journals Recent non-marine Ostracoda from Jamaica, West Indies

1997 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan A. Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Water Chemistry ◽  
Water Depth ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Lake Level ◽  
Aquatic Macrophyte ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Habitat Characteristics ◽  
Clear Distinction ◽  
Large Fluctuations ◽  
Spatial Zonation

Abstract. Ostracods were sampled qualitatively at 22 sites from 15 waterbodies in the western part of Jamaica and determinations of the water chemistry and habitat characteristics were made at each locality. Most of the ostracods found belong to the Cypridinae, Cypridopsinae, Cyclocypridinae and Darwinulidae. There is a clear distinction between the faunas found in the larger, permanent lakes and the smaller ponds. The latter are subject to large fluctuations in volume and may desiccate either seasonally or interannually. Within the largest lake, Wallywash Great Pond, there is some degree of spatial zonation in the ostracod faunas that appears to be related to water depth and aquatic macrophyte occurrence. The distribution of modern ostracods within Wallywash Great Pond suggests that the late Quaternary faunal sequence from this lake is primarily a function of lake-level changes.

Pre-Wisconsinan Mammals from Jamaica and Models of Late Quaternary Extinction in the Greater Antilles

1989 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. D. E. MacPhee ◽  
Derek C. Ford ◽  
Donald A. McFarlane
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Greater Antilles ◽  
Annual Review ◽  
Local Fauna ◽  
The West ◽  
Terrestrial Vertebrate ◽  
Spin Resonance ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Quaternary Extinctions

AbstractThe vertebrate fauna recovered from indurated conglomerates at Wallingford Roadside Cave (central Jamaica) is shown to be in excess of 100,000 yr old according to uranium series and electron spin resonance dating. The Wallingford local fauna is therefore pre-Wisconsinan in age, and Roadside Cave is now the oldest radiometrically dated locality in the West Indies containing identifiable species of land mammals. In the absence of a good radiometric record for Quaternary paleontological sites in the Caribbean, there is no satisfactory basis for determining whether most extinct Antillean mammals died out in a “blitzkrieg”-like event immediately following initial human colonization in the mid-Holocene. Fossils of Clidomys (Heptaxodontidae, Caviomorpha), the giant Wallingford rodent, have never been found in situ in sediments of demonstrably Holocene age, and its extinction may antedate the middle Holocene. This is also a possibility for the primate Xenothrix mcgregori, although its remains have been found in loose cave earth. A major, climate-driven bout of terrestrial vertebrate extinction at about 14,000–12,000 yr B.P. has been hypothesized for the West Indies by G. Pregill and S. L. Olson (Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 12, 75–98, 1981), but at present there is nothing to connect the disappearance of Clidomys with this event either. Quaternary extinctions in the Caribbean may prove to be of critical significance for evaluating the reality of New World blitzkrieg, but not until an effort is mounted to constrain them rigorously using modern radiometric approaches.

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