San Miguel Island V-5 (Pleistocene of the United States)
Where: Santa Barbara County, California (34.0° N, 120.4° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 120.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. A. Guthrie. 1992. A late Pleistocene avifauna from San Miguel Island, California. Science Series (Los Angeles) 36:319-327 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 125235: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 07.03.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Aves | |
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Podiceps nigricollis Brehm 1831 black-necked grebe | |
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Chendytes lawi Miller 1925 Law's diving-goose | |
"Diomedea albatrus" = Phoebastria albatrus
"Diomedea albatrus" = Phoebastria albatrus Pallas 1769 short-tailed albatross | |
"Puffinus griseus" = Ardenna grisea
"Puffinus griseus" = Ardenna grisea Gmelin 1789 sooty shearwater | |
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Fratercula dowi Guthrie et al. 2000 puffin
Ptychoramphus aleuticus Pallas 1811 Cassin's auklet
Synthliboramphus antiquus Gmelin 1789 Ancient murrelet | |