Spittal Pond (Holocene of Bermuda)

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

Aves
 Passeriformes - Passerellidae
Pipilo naufragus2 Olson and Wingate 2012 Bermuda towhee
 Piciformes - Picidae
Colaptes oceanicus Olson 2013 Bermuda flicker
 Pelecaniformes - Ardeidae
Nyctanassa carcinocatactes1 Olson and Wingate 2006 Bermuda night heron