Castle Windy (Holocene of the United States)

Also known as Vo 112

Where: Volusia County, Florida (28.9° N, 80.8° W: paleocoordinates 28.9° N, 80.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• bones were associated with St.Johns Check Stamped potsherds a, marker type for the St.Johns II period, usually dated ca. 1150-1650 A.D.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: foreshore; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate, anthropogenic

Primary reference: P. H. Weigel. 1958. Great Auk remains from a Florida shell midden. The Auk 75:215-216 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 122076: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 16.12.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Charadriiformes - Alcoidae
Pinguinus impennis Linnaeus 1758 Great auk