Where: Bermuda (32.3° N, 64.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.3° N, 64.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• These deposits are correlated with the middle Pleistocene Lower Town Hill Formation, which at other sites have a radiometric age of ~405,000 years ago. This equates with the marine isotope stage 11 interglacial, which culminated in a rise in sea-level to > +20 m.

Environment/lithology: foreshore; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: S. L. Olson. 2003. A fossil of the Great Auk (Penguinus impennis) from Middle Pleistocene deposits on Bermuda. Atlantic Seabirds 5(2):81-84 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 122305: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 21.12.2011

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