Liang Bua Sector XI, Spit 44 (Pleistocene of Indonesia)

Where: East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia (8.5° S, 120.4° E: paleocoordinates 8.5° S, 120.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; brown, argillaceous siltstone and sandy siltstone

• Different levels in the local section include "brownish clayey silts and sandy silts... brownish clayey silts and silts...conglomerates with clayey silt matrix"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Repository: National Research and Development Centre for Archaeology in Jakarta, Indonesia

Primary reference: H. J. M. Meijer, T. Sutikna, E. W. Saptomo, R. A. Due, Jatmiko, S. Wasisto, H. F. James, M. J. Morwood, and M.W. Tocheri. 2013. Late Pleistocene-Holocene non-passerine avifauna of Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33:877-894 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 193367: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.05.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Aves
 Accipitriformes - Accipitridae
Trigonoceps sp., Haliastur cf. indus
Trigonoceps sp. Lesson 1842 hawk
Haliastur cf. indus Boddaert 1783 brahminy kite
 Caprimulgiformes - Apodidae
Apodidae indet., Collocalia esculenta
Apodidae indet. Hartert 1897 swift
Collocalia esculenta Linnaeus 1758 glossy swiftlet
 Strigiformes - Tytonidae
Tyto sp.
Tyto sp. Billberg 1828 barn owl
 Columbiformes - Columbidae
Macropygia sp.
Macropygia sp. Swainson 1837 dove
 Anseriformes - Anatidae
Anatidae indet.
Anatidae indet. Vigors 1825 waterfowl