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gigas is probably correct. They are relatively common and obvious in Pleistocene deposits in many parts of the Caribbean; I have seen them in various places in the Bahamas.
Its being a small island off Puerto Rico fits with the Pleistocene guess; the large islands and volcanically/tectonically active small islands (e.g., the Lesser Antilles) may have older fossils, but small islands on relatively stable crust, such as the Bahamas, are almost entirely Pleistocene in their surficial deposits.
Dr. David Campbell
Old Seashells
University of Alabama
Biodiversity & Systematics
Dept. Biological Sciences
Box 870345
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0345 USA
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