Where: Bermuda (32.3° N, 64.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.3° N, 64.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• This relatively large pond, located on the south shore in Smiths Parish, would only have begun to fill when sea level approached its present level about 5000 years ago.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: pond; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
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 194445: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.06.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Colaptes oceanicus Olson 2013 Bermuda flicker | |
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