| Long Mile Cave | |
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| Location | Trelawny Parish,Jamaica |
| Coordinates | 18°22′36″N77°38′39″W / 18.3768°N 77.6441°W /18.3768; -77.6441 |
| Depth | 3 metres (9.8 ft) |
| Length | 6 metres (20 ft) |
| Geology | limestone |
Long Mile Cave, sometimes known locally asPick'ny Mama Cave orHell's Gate Cave, is apalaeontological andpalaeoanthropological site in theCockpit Country of north-westernJamaica.
The site is a small, largely collapsed,limestone chamber cave that is now arock shelter with a depth of 3 m and a length of 6 m. It lies in theTrelawny Parish close to the Coxheath-Windsor Road on privately owned farmland and is an importantQuaternary palaeontological site as well as containing aTainomidden.[1]Extinctfossil animals discovered at the site include theJamaican monkey (Xenothrix mcgregori) and theJamaican flightless ibis (Xenicibis xympithecus), which were described from material excavated by Harold Anthony in 1919–1920.[2]
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