Where: Saint Helena (16.0° S, 5.7° W: paleocoordinates 16.0° S, 5.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• "The deposits at Dry Gut may therefore date to the Holocene, when the climate was less windy in the southeast Atlantic, within the South Atlantic gyre that largely governs the climate of St Helena (Lewis et al., 2008), than in the Late Glacial (Stuut et al., 2002; Dupont et al., 2004)." Lewis, 2008

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by B.O.U. Centenary Expedition in 1959; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: N. P. Ashmole. 1963. The extinct avifauna of St. Helena Island. Ibis 103b:390-408 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194245: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.06.2018

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