Payapai Cave, level III (Holocene of Northern Mariana Islands)

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 194624: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.06.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Mammalia
 Chiroptera - Pteropodidae
Pteropus sp. Brisson 1762 flying fox
Reptilia
 Squamata - Gekkonidae
Gekkonidae indet. Gray 1825 gecko
Aves
 Charadriiformes - Laridae
"Procelsterna cerulea" = Anous ceruleus
"Procelsterna cerulea" = Anous ceruleus Bennett 1840 blue-gray noddy
 Phaethontiformes - Phaethontidae
Phaethon lepturus Daudin 1802 white-tailed tropicbird
 Caprimulgiformes - Apodidae
"Collocalia vanikorensis" = Aerodramus vanikorensis
"Collocalia vanikorensis" = Aerodramus vanikorensis Quoy and Gaimard 1830 uniform swiftlet
 Passeriformes -
Passeriformes indet. Linnaeus 1758 perching bird
 Passeriformes - Sturnidae
Aplonis opaca Kittlitz 1833 Micronesian starling
 Passeriformes - Monarchidae
Myiagra cf. freycineti Oustalet 1881 Guam flycatcher
 Passeriformes - Zosteropidae
Zosterops conspicillatus Kittlitz 1833 bridled white-eye
 Passeriformes - Estrildidae
Erythrura "n. sp." Swainson 1837 parrotfinch
 Passeriformes - Meliphagidae
"Myzomela rubrata" = Myzomela rubratra
"Myzomela rubrata" = Myzomela rubratra Lesson 1827 Micronesian myzomela
 Columbiformes - Columbidae
Gallicolumba "n. sp." Heck 1849 dove
"Gallicolumba xanthonura" = Alopecoenas xanthonurus Temminck 1823 white-throated ground-dove
Ptilinopus roseicapilla Lesson 1831 Mariana fruit-dove
 Gruiformes - Rallidae
"Poliolimnas cinereus" = Amaurornis cinerea
"Poliolimnas cinereus" = Amaurornis cinerea Vieillot 1819 white-browed crake
 Procellariiformes - Procellariidae
Puffinus lherminieri Lesson 1839 Audubon's shearwater
 Galliformes - Megapodiidae
Megapodius laperouse Gaimard 1823 Micronesian scrubfowl