Where: Northern Mariana Islands (14.1° N, 145.2° E: paleocoordinates 14.1° N, 145.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• Radiocarbon dates and presence of rat bones indicate age within the last 1000 years
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: D. W. Steadman. 1992. Extinct and extirpated birds from Rota, Mariana Islands. Micronesica 25:71-84 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 194622: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.06.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Reptilia | |
Megapodius laperouse Gaimard 1823 Micronesian scrubfowl | |
Aves | |
Gygis alba Sparman 1786 white tern | |
"Collocalia vanikorensis" = Aerodramus vanikorensis
"Collocalia vanikorensis" = Aerodramus vanikorensis Quoy and Gaimard 1830 uniform swiftlet | |
Zosterops conspicillatus Kittlitz 1833 bridled white-eye | |
Aplonis opaca Kittlitz 1833 Micronesian starling | |
Ducula oceanica Desmarest 1826 Micronesian imperial-pigeon
"Gallicolumba xanthonura" = Alopecoenas xanthonurus Temminck 1823 white-throated ground-dove
Ptilinopus roseicapilla Lesson 1831 Mariana fruit-dove | |
Egretta sacra Gmelin 1789 Pacific reef-heron | |
Puffinus lherminieri Lesson 1839 Audubon's shearwater | |
Phaethon lepturus Daudin 1802 white-tailed tropicbird | |
Reptilia | |
Scincidae indet. Gray 1825 skink | |
Gekkonidae indet. Gray 1825 gecko | |
Mammalia | |
Pteropus sp. Brisson 1762 flying fox | |
Rattus sp. Fischer 1803 rat |