San Miguel Island V-22 (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Santa Barbara County, California (34.0° N, 120.4° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 120.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; poorly lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. A. Guthrie. 2005. Distribution and provenance of fossil avifauna on San Miguel Island. Sixth California Islands Symposium. Institute of Wildlife Studies and National Park Service 35-42 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 176096: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 28.01.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Procellariiformes - Procellariidae
"Puffinus tenuirostris" = Ardenna tenuirostris
"Puffinus tenuirostris" = Ardenna tenuirostris Temminck 1823 short-tailed shearwater
 Anseriformes - Anatidae
Branta canadensis Linnaeus 1758 Canada goose
 Charadriiformes - Alcoidae
Uria aalge Pontoppidan 1763 Common murre
Synthliboramphus antiquus Gmelin 1789 Ancient murrelet
Ptychoramphus aleuticus Pallas 1811 Cassin's auklet
Fratercula dowi Guthrie et al. 2000 puffin