Also known as Makawehi
Where: Kauai County, Hawaii (21.9° N, 159.4° W: paleocoordinates 21.9° N, 159.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• "Land snail shells, crab claws, and a goose bone from the sand yielded radiocarbon dates of 6740 ± 80, 5145 ± 60 and 4690 ± 100 ybp, respectively (Olson and James, 1982a, 1982b; Hearty et al. 2000)." (Ziegler et al. 2016)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
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 110076: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 01.06.2011, edited by Bethany Allen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
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Aves | |
Diomedea sp. Linnaeus 1758 albatross | |
Passeriformes indet. Linnaeus 1758 perching bird | |
Moho braccatus Cassin 1855 Kauai oo | |
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Grallistrix auceps n. gen. n. sp.1
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Branta sp. Scopoli 1769 goose | |
Numenius tahitiensis Gmelin 1789 bristle-thighed curlew |