Henderson Island, site 3 (Holocene of Pitcairn)

Where: Pitcairn (24.3° S, 128.3° W: paleocoordinates 24.3° S, 128.3° 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; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying

Primary reference: G. M. Wragg. 1995. The fossil birds of Henderson Island, Pitcairn Group: natural turnover and human impact, a synopsis. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 56:405-414 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 193763: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.06.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Phaethontiformes - Phaethontidae
Phaethon rubricauda Boddaert 1783 red-tailed tropicbird
 Procellariiformes - Procellariidae
Pterodroma spp. Bonaparte 1856 petrel
Pterodroma nigripennis Rothschild 1893 black-winged petrel
Puffinus sp. Brisson 1760 shearwater
Puffinus nativitatis Streets 1877 Christmas shearwater
 Suliformes - Fregatidae
Fregata minor Gmelin 1789 Great frigatebird
 Suliformes - Sulidae
Sula dactylatra Lesson 1831 masked booby
 Columbiformes - Columbidae
Gallicolumba leonpascoi2 Worthy and Wragg 2003 dove
Ptilinopus insularis North 1908 Henderson Island fruit-dove
 Gruiformes - Rallidae
"Porzana atra" = Zapornia atra
"Porzana atra" = Zapornia atra North 1908 Henderson Island crake
 Passeriformes - Acrocephalidae
Acrocephalus taiti Ogilvie-Grant 1913 Henderson Island reed warbler
Acrocephalus vaughani taiti
 Charadriiformes - Laridae
Gygis alba, Anous spp., "Procelsterna cerulea" = Anous ceruleus
Gygis alba Sparman 1786 white tern
Anous spp. Stephens 1826 gull
"Procelsterna cerulea" = Anous ceruleus Bennett 1840 blue-gray noddy
 Charadriiformes - Scolopacidae
Prosobonia sauli1 De Pietri et al. 2020 Polynesian sandpiper
3 specimens according to De Pietri et al. 2021
Numenius tahitiensis Gmelin 1789 bristle-thighed curlew