Prosperous Bay (BOU collection) (Holocene of Saint Helena)

Where: Saint Helena (15.9° S, 5.7° W: paleocoordinates 15.9° S, 5.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• Likely deposited within the last thousand years (Lewis, 2008)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by B.O.U. Centenary Expedition in 1959; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: F. E. Zeuner. 1962. A subfossil giant dermapteron from St. Helena. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 138:651-653 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155782: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.05.2014

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Taxonomic list

Aves
 Gruiformes - Rallidae
Aphanocrex podarces1 Wetmore 1963 Saint Helena rail
 Suliformes - Fregatidae
Fregata ariel1 Gray 1845 Lesser frigatebird
 Suliformes - Sulidae
Sula sula1 Linnaeus 1766 red-footed booby
 Procellariiformes - Oceanitidae
Pelagodroma marina1 Latham 1790 white-faced storm-petrel
 Procellariiformes - Procellariidae
Puffinus lherminieri2 Lesson 1839 Audubon's shearwater
 Charadriiformes - Laridae
"Sterna fuscata" = Onychoprion fuscatus1
"Sterna fuscata" = Onychoprion fuscatus1 Linnaeus 1766 sooty tern
Insecta
 Dermaptera - Labiduridae
"Labidura loveridgei n. sp." = Labidura herculeana
"Labidura loveridgei n. sp." = Labidura herculeana Fabricius 1798 Saint Helena giant earwig
BMNH In.59781