Shimojibaru-dou Cave, Kume (Pleistocene of Japan)

Where: Japan (26.4° N, 126.7° E: paleocoordinates 26.4° N, 126.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. Matsuoka. 2000. The Late Pleistocene fossil birds of the central and southern Ryukyu Islands, and their zoogeographical implications for the Recent avifauna of the archipelago. Tropics 10:165-188 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 193446: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.05.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Garrulus gladarius, Picidae indet., and Falconiformes indet. in list of Hasegawa & Nohara (1978) are doubtful or uncertain
Aves
 Anseriformes - Anatidae
Anas acuta Linnaeus 1758 northern pintail
 Passeriformes - Turdidae
"Turdinae indet." = Turdidae
"Turdinae indet." = Turdidae Rafinesque 1815 thrush
 Passeriformes - Muscicapidae
Erithacus sp. Cuvier 1800 flycatcher