Government Quarry, S face (Pleistocene 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: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• "Probably older than Holocene"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; 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 194447: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.06.2018

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Taxonomic list

Aves
 Columbiformes - Columbidae
cf. Zenaida aurita Temminck 1809 zenaida dove
 Piciformes - Picidae
Sphyrapicus varius Linnaeus 1766 yellow-bellied sapsucker