Where: Mauritius (20.4° S, 57.7° E: paleocoordinates 20.4° S, 57.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; peat

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Clark in 1865; reposited in the BMNH, SM

Primary reference: R. Owen. 1866. Evidence of a species, perhaps extinct, of a large parrot (Psittacus mauritianus, Owen), contemporary with the Dodo in the island of Mauritius. Ibis 2(2):168-171 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194024: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.06.2018

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