Where: Yemen (12.6° N, 54.4° E: paleocoordinates 12.6° N, 54.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: cave; unlithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: bone collector
Primary reference: G. Ramello, M. Delfino, E. Mori, A. Viviano, G. Pavia, G. Carnevale, and M. Pavia. 2024. Holocene vertebrate assemblages provide the first evidence for the presence of the barn owl (Tytonidae, Tyto alba) on Socotra Island (Yemen). Geobios 83:85-98 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 169046: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Carlos Jaramillo on 05.05.2015, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Mammalia | |
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Rattus norvegicus Berkenhout 1769 brown rat
Mus domesticus Shwarz and Shwarz 1943 house mouse | |
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Suncus madagascariensis Coquerel 1848 Madagascan pygmy shrew | |
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Rhinopoma cystops Thomas 1903 Egyptian mouse-tailed bat | |
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Rhinolophus clivosus Cretzschmar 1828 Geoffroy's horseshoe bat | |
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Hypsugo lanzai Benda et al. 2011 Socotran pipistrelle | |
| Aves | |
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Scolopacidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 snipe | |
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Puffinus persicus Hume 1872 Persian shearwater | |
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Passer insularis Sclater and Hartlaub 1881 Socotra sparrow | |
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Emberiza sp. Linnaeus 1758 old world bunting | |
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Rhynchostruthus socotranus Sclater and Hartlaub 1881 Socotra golden-winged grosbeak | |
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Zosterops abyssinicus Guérin-Méneville 1843 Abyssinian white-eye | |
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Sylviidae indet. Vigors 1825 perching bird | |
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Chalcomitra balfouri Sclater and Hartlaub 1881 Socotra sunbird | |
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Lanius excubitor Linnaeus 1758 great gray shrike | |
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Oenanthe sp. Vieillot 1816 wheatear | |
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Apus sp. Scopoli 1777 swift | |
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Anas sp. Linnaeus 1758 dabbling duck | |
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Tyto alba Scopoli 1769 barn owl | |
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Oena capensis Linnaeus 1766 Namaqua dove
Spilopelia senegalensis Linnaeus 1766 laughing dove
Treron waalia Meyer 1793 Bruce's green pigeon | |
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Coracias garrulus Linnaeus 1758 European roller | |
| Reptilia | |
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Ditypophis vivax Günther 1881 Günther's racer | |
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Xerotyphlops socotranus Boulenger 1889 Socotra worm snake | |
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Haemodracon trachyrhinus Boulenger 1899 pygmy Socotran leaf-toed gecko
Haemodracon riebeckii Peters 1882 squamates | |
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Mesalina balfouri Blanford 1881 squamates | |
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Chamaeleo monachus Gray 1865 Socotran chameleon | |
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Trachylepis socotrana Peters 1882 Socotra skink | |