Sugar Loaf Hill (Kerr collection) (Pleistocene of Saint Helena)

Where: Saint Helena (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 Norman Kerr; 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 194247: 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 dekarchiskos
Dysmoropelia dekarchiskos Olson 1975 Saint Helena dove
 Procellariiformes - Oceanitidae
Pelagodroma marina
Pelagodroma marina Latham 1790 white-faced storm-petrel
 Procellariiformes - Procellariidae
Pterodroma rupinarum, Bulweria bifax, Puffinus lherminieri, Puffinus pacificoides
Pterodroma rupinarum Olson 1975 Saint Helena gadfly petrel
Bulweria bifax Olson 1975 Saint Helena Bulwer's petrel
Puffinus lherminieri Lesson 1839 Audubon's shearwater
Puffinus assimilis/P. lherminieri
Puffinus pacificoides Olson 1975 shearwater