Publicaciones de fósiles de Puerto Rico / Publications on fossils from Puerto Rico

Para esta nota he recopilado un listado de publicaciones que tratan sobre fósiles de Puerto Rico. Por supuesto que el listado está viciado a favor de publicaciones sobre vertebrados fósiles los cuales son mis favoritos o invertebrados con los cuales he trabajado en el pasado. Si conoces referencias adicionales me puedes avisar (a través de correo electrónico o comentarios abajo) para asi añadirlos a la lista. Algunas de las referencias incluso están enlazados su pdf gratis.

For this post I have compiled a list of publications that deals with fossils from Puerto Rico. Of course it is somewhat biased toward vertebrates, which are my favorites or invertebrates on which I have worked on previous occasions. If you know additional references that are not here just let me know (either through emails or comments below) and they will be added. Some of these are linked to their free pdf.

Anthony, H. E. 1916. Preliminary diagnosis of an apparently new family of insectivores. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 35(41):725-728.

Anthony, H. E. 1917a. New fossil rodents from Porto Rico, with additional notes on Elasmodontomys obliquus Anthony and Heteropsomys insulans Anthony. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 37(4):183-190.

Anthony, H. E. 1917b. Two new fossil bats from Porto Rico. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 37(19):565-568.

Anthony, H. E. 1918. The indigenous land mammals of Porto Rico, living and extinct. American Museum of Natural History, Memoirs 1(2):329-435.

Auffenberg, W. 1967. Notes on West Indian tortoises. Herpetologica 23(1):34-44.

Bold, W. A., Van Den. 1965. Middle Tertiary Ostracoda from Northwestern Puerto Rico. Micropaleontology 11(4):381-414.

Brochu, C. A., A. M. Nieves-Rivera, J. Velez-Juarbe, J. D. Daza-Vaca and H. Santos. 2007. Tertiary crocodylians from Puerto Rico: evidence for late Tertiary endemic crocodylians in the West Indies? Geobios 40:51-59.

Choate, J. R. and E. C. Birney. 1968. Sub-recent Insectivora and Chiroptera from Puerto Rico, with the description of an new bat of the genus Stenoderma. Journal of Mammalogy 49(3):400-412.

Cutress, B. M. 1980. Cretaceous and Tertiary Cidaroida (Echinodermata, Echinoidea) of the Caribbean area. Bulletin of American Paleontology 77:1-221.


Domning, D. P. and O. A. Aguilera. 2008. Fossil Sirenia of the West Atlantic and Caribbean region. VIII. Nanosiren garciae, gen. et sp. nov. and Nanosiren sanchezi, sp. nov. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(2):479-500.

Flemming, C. and R. D. E. MacPhee. 1999. Redetermination of holotype of Isolobodon portoricensis (Rodentia, Capromyidae), with notes on recent mammalian extinctions in Puerto Rico. American Museum Novitates 3278:1-11.

Frank, E. F. and R. Benson. 1998. Vertebrate paleontology of Mona Island, Puerto Rico. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 60:103-106.

Gaffney, E. S., and R. C. Wood. 2002. Bairdemys, a new side-necked turtle (Pelomedusoides: Podocnemididae) from the Miocene of the Caribbean. American Museum Novitates 3359:1-28.

Gordon, W. A. 1963. Middle Tertiary echinoids of Puerto Rico. Journal of Paleontology 37(3):628-642.

Graham, A. 1996. Paleobotany of Puerto Rico-from Arthur Hollick’s (1928) scientific survey paper to the present. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 776: 103-114.

Graham, A. and D. M. Jarzen. 1969. Studies in neotropical botany. I. The Oligocene communities of Puerto Rico. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 56:308-357.

Hollick, A. 1926. Fossil walnuts and lignite from Porto Rico. Journal of the New York Botanical Garden 27:223-227.

Hollick, A. 1928. Paleobotany of Porto Rico. Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands 7(3):177-393.

Howell, B. F. 1966. New Upper Cretaceous sponge from Puerto Rico. Journal of Paleontology 40(1):207-209.

Iturralde-Vinent, M. A. and E. Harstein. 1998. Miocene amber and lignitic deposits in Puerto Rico. Caribbean Journal of Science 34:308-312.

MacPhee, R.D.E. 2011. Basicranial morphology and relationships of Antillean Heptaxodontidae (Rodentia, Ctenohystrica, Caviomorpha). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 363:1-70.

MacPhee, R.D.E. and M.A. Iturralde-Vinent. 1995. Origin of the Greater Antillean land mammal fauna, 1: new Tertiary fossils from Cuba and Puerto Rico. American Museum Novitates 3141:1-31.

MacPhee, R. D. E. and A. R. Wyss. 1990. Oligo-Miocene vertebrates from Puerto Rico, with a catalog of localities. American Museum Novitates 2965:1-12.

Matthew, W. D. 1916. New sirenian from the Tertiary of Porto Rico. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 27:23-29.


McDowell, S. B. 1958. The Greater Antillean insectivores. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 115:113-214.

McFarlane, D. A. 1999. Late Quaternary fossil mammals and last occurrence dates from caves at Barahona, Puerto Rico. Caribbean Journal of Science 35(3-4):238-248.

Mitchell, S. F., M. Martínez-Colón, R. Ramsook and H. Santos. 2012. A primitive tube-bearing antillocaprinid rudist bivalve, Parasarcolites sohli, sp. nov., from Jamaica and Puerto Rico, West Indies. Cretaceous Research 34:149-153.

Moussa, M. T. 1974. Tertiary brachiopods from Puerto Rico and their paleontologic and paleoecologic significance. Journal of Paleontology 48(6):1202-1206.

Nieves-Rivera, A.M., M. Ruiz-Yantín and M.D Gottfried. 2003. New record of the Lamnid shark Carcharodon megalodon from the Middle Miocene of Puerto Rico. Caribbean Journal of Science 39:223-227.

Olson, S. L. 1976. Fossil woodcocks: an extinct species from Puerto Rico and an invalid species from Malta (Aves:Scolopacidae: Scolopax). Biological Society of Washington, Proceedings 89(20):265-274.

Olson, S. L. 1982. A new species of palm swift (Tachornis: Apodidae) from the Pleistocene of Puerto Rico. The Auk 99:230-235.

Olson, S. L. and E. J. Maíz López. 2008. New evidence of Ara autochthones from an archeological site in Puerto Rico: a valid species of West Indian macaw of unknown geographic origin (Aves: Psittacidae). Caribbean Journal of Science 44(2):215-222.

Olson, S. L. and M. C. McKitrick. 1981. A new genus and species of emberizine finch from Pleistocene cave deposits in Puerto Rico (Aves: Passeriformes). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 1(3/4):279-283.

Olson, S. L. and Á. M. Nieves-Rivera. 2010. Fossil evidence and probable extinction of the greater fishing bat Noctilio leporinus (Chiroptera: Noctilionidae) on Isla de Mona, Puerto Rico. Mastozoología Neotropical 17(1):167-170.

Pearson, P. N. and B. S. Wade. 2009. Taxonomy and stable isotope paleoecology of well-preserved planktonic foraminifera from the uppermost Oligocene of Trinidad. Journal of Foraminiferal Research 39(3):191-217.

Pessagno, E. A., Jr. 1963. Planktonic Foraminifera from the Juana Diaz Formation, Puerto Rico. Micropaleontology 9(1):53-60.

Pessagno, E. A., Jr. 1963. Upper Cretaceous Radiolaria from Puerto Rico. Micropaleontology 9(2):197-214.

Pisera, A., M. Martínez and H. Santos. 2006. Late Cretaceous siliceous sponges from El Rayo Formation, Puerto Rico. Journal of Paleontology 80(3):594-600.

Pregill, G. K. 1981. Late Pleistocene herpetofaunas from Puerto Rico. University of Kansas Museum of Natural History, Miscellaneous Publications 71:1-72.

Rabell-Cabrero, N. 1914. Notas paleontológicas. Revista de las Antillas 2(1):66-69.

Rabell-Cabrero, N. 1924. Notas sobre algunos escuálidos fósiles de Puerto Rico. Revista Agricultura de Puerto Rico 12:377-384.

Reinhart, R. H. 1959. A review of the Sirenia and Desmostylia. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 36(1):1-146.

Schweitzer, C. E., M. A. Iturralde-Vinent, J. L. Hetler and J. Velez-Juarbe. 2006. Oligocene and Miocene Decapods (Thalassinidea and Brachyura) from the Caribbean: Annals of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History 75(2):111-136.

Schweitzer, C. E., J. Velez-Juarbe, M. Martinez, A. Collmar Hull, R. M. Feldmann and H. Santos. 2008. New Cretaceous and Cenozoic decapoda (Crustacea: Thalassinidea, Brachyura) from Puerto Rico, United States Territory. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 34:1-15.

Sohl, N. F. 1992. Upper Cretaceous gastropods (Fissurellidae, Haliotidae, Scissurellidae) from Puerto Rico and Jamaica. Journal of Paleontology 66(3):414-434.

Sohl, N. F. 1998. Upper Cretaceous trochacean gastropods from Puerto Rico and Jamaica. Palaeontographica Americana 60:1-109.

Turvey, S. T. 2010. Evolution of non-homologous venom delivery systems in West Indian insectivores? Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(4):1294-1299.

Turvey, S. T., F. V. Grady and P. Rye. 2006. A new genus and species of ‘giant hutia’ (Tainotherium valei) from the Quaternary of Puerto Rico: an extinct arboreal quadruped? Journal of Zoology 270:585-594.

Turvey, S. T., J. R. Oliver, Y. M. Narganes Storde and P. Rye. 2007. Late Holocene extinction of Puerto Rican native land mammals. Biology Letters 3:193-196.

Velez-Juarbe, J. and D. P. Domning. 2011. A new dugongine (Sirenia; Dugongidae) from the late Oligocene of Puerto Rico and its position within the Dugonginae. Abstracts Sixth Triennial Conference on Secondary Adaptation of Tetrapods to Life in Water, p. 77.

Velez-Juarbe, J. and T. E. Miller. 2007. First report of a Quaternary Crocodylian from a cave deposit in Northern Puerto Rico. Caribbean Journal of Science 43(2):273-277.

Velez-Juarbe, J. and H. Santos. 2008. Fossil Echinodermata from Puerto Rico; pp. 369-395 in W. I. Ausich and G. D. Webster (eds.), Echinoderm Paleobiology. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana.

Velez-Juarbe, J., C. A. Brochu and H. Santos. 2007. A gharial from the Oligocene of Puerto Rico: transoceanic dispersal in the history of a nonmarine reptile. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 274:1245-1254.

Wetmore, A. 1920. Five new species of birds from cave deposits in Porto Rico. Biological Society of Washington, Proceedings 33:76-81.

Wetmore, A. 1922. Bird remains from the caves of Porto Rico. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 46:297-333.

Williams, E. E. 1952. A new fossil tortoise from Mona Island, West Indies and a tentative arrangement of the tortoises of the world. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 99(9):541-560.

Williams, E. E. and K. F. Koopman. 1951. New fossil rodent from Puerto Rico. American Museum Novitates 1515:1-9.

Wood, R. C. 1972. A fossil pelomedusid turtle from Puerto Rico. Breviora 392:1-13.

Woods, C. A. 1996. The land mammals of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 776:131-149.