Where: Saint Helena (7.9° S, 14.4° W: paleocoordinates 7.9° S, 14.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• The many bones collected here were found mainly in a small pocket floored with about 60 cm of dust and cinders (Olson 1973). Bones from the deeper layers were stained dark brown while those at the surface were white.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S.L. Olson, J.M. Couch in 1970; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: S. L. Olson. 1973. Evolution of the rails of the South Atlantic Islands (Aves: Rallidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 152:1-53 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194278: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.06.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)