Where: Bermuda (32.4° N, 64.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.4° N, 64.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• Probably the end of the last glacial period (Marine Isotope Stage 2). In the complex
•stratigraphy of the Admirals Cave talus cone (Hearty et al. 2004), all Holocene
•deposits occur higher on the slopes of the cone, underlying a Holocene flowstone. Near-surface deposits in the area excavated in 1981 are almost all from the end of
•the last glacial period.
Environment/lithology: cave; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by S.L. Olson, D.B. Wingate, R. Baird, T. Iliffe in 1981; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: S. L. Olson. 2013. Fossil woodpeckers from Bermuda with the description of a new species of Colaptes (Aves: Picidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 126:17-24 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 194442: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.06.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
Colaptes oceanicus n. sp.
Colaptes oceanicus n. sp. Olson 2013 Bermuda flicker |