Where: Venezuela (11.7° N, 66.9° W: paleocoordinates 11.7° N, 66.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• All remaining indigenous temporary occupations of the islands discussed here occurred between ∼AD 1000 and 1500 (Antczak and Antczak 1993, 2006).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: anthropogenic, midden
Primary reference: M. M. Antczak, A. T. Antczaj, and M. Lentino. 2019. Avian remains from late pre-colonial Amerindian sites on islands of the Venezuelan Caribbean. Environmental Archaeology 24:161-181 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis
PaleoDB collection 197932: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.12.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
Laridae indet., "Leucophaeus atricilla" = Larus atricilla
Laridae indet. Vigors 1825 gull
"Leucophaeus atricilla" = Larus atricilla Linnaeus 1758 laughing gull | |
Pelecanus occidentalis Linnaeus 1766 brown pelican | |
"Ajaja cf. ajaja" = Platalea ajaja
"Ajaja cf. ajaja" = Platalea ajaja Linnaeus 1758 roseate spoonbill | |
Phoenicopterus ruber Linnaeus 1758 American flamingo | |
Polyborus plancus Miller 1777 southern caracara |