AIT50, Hosea site, Aitutaki (Holocene of Cook Islands)
Where: Cook Islands (18.9° S, 159.8° W: paleocoordinates 18.9° S, 159.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified grainstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying
Primary reference: D. W. Steadman. 1991. Extinct and extirpated birds from Aitutaki and Atiu, southern Cook Islands. Pacific Science 45:325-347 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis
PaleoDB collection 193452: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.05.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Aves | |
Gallus gallus Linnaeus 1758 chicken | |
"Eudynamis taitensis" = Urodynamis taitensis
"Eudynamis taitensis" = Urodynamis taitensis Sparrman 1787 long-tailed koel | |
Vini kuhlii Vigors 1824 Kuhl's lorikeet | |
"Porzana tabuensis" = Zapornia tabuensis
"Porzana tabuensis" = Zapornia tabuensis Gmelin 1789 spotless crake | |
Mammalia | |
Pteropus tonganus flying fox |