Fossils of a large extinct tortoise (Geochelone) and other vertebrate species were found at Indian Cave on Middle Caicos and Coralie archaeological site on Grand Turk in the Turks and Caicos Islands, B.W.I. The Indian Cave fossils appear to span an extensive period of time. Many of the tortoise bones collected in the upper levels of the excavation are charred, suggesting that the local human population cooked tortoises for food. The presence of tortoises at Coralie is reported here but without further comments. Tortoise fossils are also known from Andros, New Providence, and Abaco in the Bahamas and from several islands in the Greater and Lesser Antilles in the Greater Caribbean area. Tortoise fossils from Middle Caicos probably represent an undescribed taxon that is related to tortoises in the South American subgenus Chelonoides.

In Press. Proceedings of the Bahamas Field Station.