Liang Bua Sector XI, Spits 43-47 (Pleistocene of Indonesia)

Where: East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia (8.5° S, 120.4° E: paleocoordinates 8.5° S, 120.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• associated individual found "at a depth of 425-470 cm" in "Layer O"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; brown, argillaceous siltstone

• "brown clayey silts"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying

• National Centre for Archaeology in Jakarta collection

Primary reference: H. J. M. Meijer and R. Awe Due. 2010. A new species of giant marabou stork (Aves: Ciconiiformes) from the Pleistocene of Liang Bua, Flores (Indonesia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160(4):707-724 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 106280: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.03.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Ciconiiformes - Ciconiidae
Leptoptilos robustus n. sp. Meijer and Awe Due 2010 stork