Where: Saint Helena (15.9° S, 5.7° W: paleocoordinates 15.9° S, 5.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• Likely deposited within the last thousand years (Lewis, 2008)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by A. Loveridge, J.W. Bailey in 1959-1970; reposited in the MCZ
Primary reference: S. L. Olson. 1975. Paleornithology of St. Helena Island, South Atlantic Ocean. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 23:1-49 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 194291: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.06.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
Phaethon aethereus Linnaeus 1758 red-billed tropicbird | |
"Sterna fuscata" = Onychoprion fuscatus
"Sterna fuscata" = Onychoprion fuscatus Linnaeus 1766 sooty tern | |
Pelagodroma marina Latham 1790 white-faced storm-petrel | |
Sula sula Linnaeus 1766 red-footed booby
Sula dactylatra Lesson 1831 masked booby | |
Nannococcyx psix n. gen. n. sp.
Nannococcyx psix n. gen. n. sp. Olson 1975 Saint Helena cuckoo |