Tangatatau Rockshelter, zone B, Mangaia (Holocene of Cook Islands)
Where: Cook Islands (21.9° S, 157.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: anthropogenic
Reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: D. W. Steadman and P. V. Kirch. 1990. Prehistoric extinction of birds on Mangaia, Cook Islands, Polynesia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 87:9605-9609 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 194757: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.06.2018
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
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Anas superciliosa Gmelin 1789 Pacific black duck | |
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Ptilinopus rarotongensis Hartlaub and Finsch 1871 Cook Islands fruit-dove | |
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Pterodroma nigripennis Rothschild 1893 black-winged petrel
Puffinus lherminieri Lesson 1839 Audubon's shearwater | |
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Fregata ariel Gray 1845 Lesser frigatebird | |
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Phaethon lepturus Daudin 1802 white-tailed tropicbird | |