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SUBMITTER: Martin AJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7725343 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Martin Anthony J AJ Stearns Dorothy D Whitten Meredith J MJ Hage Melissa M MM Page Michael M Basu Arya A
PloS one 20201209 12
Most species of modern iguanas (Iguania, Iguanidae) dig burrows for dwelling and nesting, yet neither type of burrow has been interpreted as trace fossils in the geologic record. Here we describe and diagnose the first known fossil example of an iguana nesting burrow, preserved in the Grotto Beach Formation (Early Late Pleistocene, ~115 kya) on San Salvador Island, The Bahamas. The trace fossil, located directly below a protosol, is exposed in a vertical section of a cross-bedded oolitic eoliani ...[more]