Where: Hawaii (21.5° N, 157.7° W: paleocoordinates 21.1° N, 157.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• These sediments are probably considerably younger than 800,000 yr, the age of the oldest rocks in the volcanic series forming the crater, and older than 120,000 yr, the age of the overlying marine deposits of the Waimanalo Formation (James 1987).
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: H. F. James. 1987. A late Pleistocene avifauna from the Island of Oahu, Hawaiian Islands. Docum. Lab. Geol. Lyon 99:221-230 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 176394: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 10.02.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Aves | |
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Buteo sp. de Lacepède 1799 hawk | |
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Anas wyvilliana Sclater 1878 Hawaiian duck
Thambetochen sp. Olson and Wetmore 1976 waterfowl | |
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Chaetoptila cf. angustipluma Peale 1848 kioea | |
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Chasiempis sandwichensis Gmelin 1789 Hawaii elepaio | |
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Corvus sp. Linnaeus 1758 crow | |
"Psittirostra (Chloridops) sp." = Chloridops, "Loxops virens" = Chlorodrepanis virens, "Psittirostra (Rhodacanthis) sp." = Rhodacanthis, Paroreomyza maculata, "? Hemignathus obscurus" = Akialoa obscura
"Psittirostra (Chloridops) sp." = Chloridops Wilson 1888 finch
"Loxops virens" = Chlorodrepanis virens Gmelin 1789 Hawaii amakihi
"Psittirostra (Rhodacanthis) sp." = Rhodacanthis Rothschild 1892 finch
Paroreomyza maculata Cabanis 1851 Oahu alauahio
"? Hemignathus obscurus" = Akialoa obscura Gmelin 1788 lesser akialoa | |
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Fulica americana Gmelin 1789 American coot | |