Ana Takitaki cave, Atiu (Holocene of Cook Islands)

Where: Cook Islands (20.0° S, 158.1° W: paleocoordinates 20.0° S, 158.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; unlithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1987

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 193455: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.05.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Columbiformes - Columbidae
Ducula aurorae Peale 1848 Polynesian imperial-pigeon
 Coraciiformes - Alcedinidae
"Halcyon tuta" = Todiramphus tutus
"Halcyon tuta" = Todiramphus tutus Gmelin 1788 chattering kingfisher
 Caprimulgiformes - Apodidae
"Collocalia sawtelli" = Aerodramus sawtelli
"Collocalia sawtelli" = Aerodramus sawtelli Holyoak 1974 Atiu swiftlet