Sugar Loaf Hill (BOU Centenary collection) (Pleistocene of Saint Helena)

Where: Saint Helena (15.9° S, 5.7° W: paleocoordinates 15.9° S, 5.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• Radiocarbon dated to late Pleistocene by Lewis (2008).

Environment/lithology: eolian; unlithified, calcareous 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 194246: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.06.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Aves
 Columbiformes - Columbidae
Dysmoropelia dekarchiskos2
Dysmoropelia dekarchiskos2 Olson 1975 Saint Helena dove
 Gruiformes - Rallidae
"Atlantisia podarces" = Aphanocrex podarces1
"Atlantisia podarces" = Aphanocrex podarces1 Wetmore 1963 Saint Helena rail
 Procellariiformes - Oceanitidae
Pelagodroma marina
Pelagodroma marina Latham 1790 white-faced storm-petrel
 Procellariiformes - Procellariidae
Bulweria bifax2, Puffinus lherminieri2, Puffinus pacificoides2, Pterodroma rupinarum2
Bulweria bifax2 Olson 1975 Saint Helena Bulwer's petrel
Puffinus lherminieri2 Lesson 1839 Audubon's shearwater
Puffinus assimilis/P. lherminieri
Puffinus pacificoides2 Olson 1975 shearwater
Pterodroma rupinarum2 Olson 1975 Saint Helena gadfly petrel
1Olson 1973; 2Olson 1975