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

Aves
 Galliformes - Phasianidae
Gallus gallus Linnaeus 1758 chicken
 Cuculiformes - Cuculidae
"Eudynamis taitensis" = Urodynamis taitensis
"Eudynamis taitensis" = Urodynamis taitensis Sparrman 1787 long-tailed koel
 Psittaciformes - Psittaculidae
Vini kuhlii Vigors 1824 Kuhl's lorikeet
 Gruiformes - Rallidae
"Porzana tabuensis" = Zapornia tabuensis
"Porzana tabuensis" = Zapornia tabuensis Gmelin 1789 spotless crake
Mammalia
 Chiroptera - Pteropodidae