Where: Saint Helena (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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Taxonomic list
Aves | |
Pterodroma rupinarum Olson 1975 Saint Helena gadfly petrel | |
Upupa antaios Olson 1975 Saint Helena hoopoe |