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
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 | |
Leptoptilos robustus n. sp.
Leptoptilos robustus n. sp. Meijer and Awe Due 2010 stork |