Where: Molokai County, Hawaii (21.2° N, 157.3° W: paleocoordinates 21.2° N, 157.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• Radiocarbondates from two different kinds of land snails from one of the most productive fossil sites here were 5,510±65yr BP and5,245±60yr BP,which again,are maxima (Olson and James 1982b:30).
Environment/lithology: interdune; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: S. L. Olson and H. F. James. 1982. Prodromus of the fossil avifauna of the Hawaiian Islands. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 365:1-59 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 110074: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 01.06.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
Rallidae indet., Porzana menehune n. sp.
Porzana menehune n. sp. Olson and James 1991 rail | |
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Branta sp. Scopoli 1769 goose
Thambetochen sp. Olson and Wetmore 1976 waterfowl | |
Passeriformes indet. Linnaeus 1758 perching bird | |
Drepanidini indet. finch | |
Corvus sp. Linnaeus 1758 crow | |
Apteribis glenos Olson and Wetmore 1976 spoonbill | |
"Puffinus pacificus" = Ardenna pacifica
"Puffinus pacificus" = Ardenna pacifica Gmelin 1789 wedge-tailed shearwater |