AIT47, Poana site, Aitutaki (Holocene of Cook Islands)

Where: Cook Islands (18.9° S, 159.8° W: paleocoordinates 18.9° S, 159.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified grainstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying

Primary reference: D. W. Steadman. 1991. Extinct and extirpated birds from Aitutaki and Atiu, southern Cook Islands. Pacific Science 45:325-347 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 193450: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.05.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Charadriiformes - Laridae
Anous stolidus Linnaeus 1758 brown noddy