PBDB

Amsterdam Island (Holocene of French Southern Territories)

Where: French Southern Territories (37.8° S, 77.6° E: paleocoordinates 37.8° S, 77.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• Although undated, the better-preserved of these specimens are probably no more than a few hundred years old.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: S. L. Olson and P. Jouventin. 1996. A new species of small flightless duck from Amsterdam Island, southern Indian Ocean (Anatidae: Anas). The Condor 98:1-9 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194621: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.06.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Aves
Procellariiformes - Hydrobatidae	Hydrobatidae indet.² Hydrobatidae indet.² Mathews 1912 storm petrel
Procellariiformes - Diomedeidae	"Diomedea chlororhynchos" = Thalassarche chlororhynchos², Diomedea sp.², Diomedea amsterdamensis² "Diomedea chlororhynchos" = Thalassarche chlororhynchos² Gmelin 1789 yellow-nosed albatross Diomedea sp.² Linnaeus 1758 albatross Diomedea amsterdamensis² Roux et al. 1983 Amsterdam albatross
Procellariiformes - Oceanitidae	Oceanites sp.², Fregetta grallaria², Pelagodroma marina² Oceanites sp.² Keyserling and Blasius 1840 bird Fregetta grallaria² Vieillot 1818 white-bellied storm-petrel Pelagodroma marina² Latham 1790 white-faced storm-petrel
Procellariiformes - Procellariidae	Pachyptila sp.², "Pachyptila macgillivrayi" = Pachyptila salvini macgillivrayi², Pachyptila cf. desolata², Pachyptila cf. turtur², "Puffinus cf. griseus" = Ardenna grisea², "Puffinus carneipes" = Ardenna carneipes², Pelecanoides urinatrix², Procellaria cinerea², Pterodroma sp.², Pterodroma arminjoniana², Pterodroma baraui², Pterodroma macroptera², Pterodroma mollis², Puffinus assimilis², "Pterodroma ? aterrima" = Pseudobulweria aterrima² Pachyptila sp.² Illiger 1811 prion Pachyptila sp. chicks "Pachyptila macgillivrayi" = Pachyptila salvini macgillivrayi² Mathews 1912 MacGillivray's prion Pachyptila cf. desolata² Gmelin 1789 Antarctic prion Pachyptila cf. turtur² Kuhl 1820 fairy prion "Puffinus cf. griseus" = Ardenna grisea² Gmelin 1789 sooty shearwater "Puffinus carneipes" = Ardenna carneipes² Gould 1844 flesh-footed shearwater Pelecanoides urinatrix² Gmelin 1789 common diving-petrel Procellaria cinerea² Gmelin 1789 gray petrel Pterodroma sp.² Bonaparte 1856 petrel Pterodroma baraui/arminjoniana Pterodroma arminjoniana² Giglioli and Salvadori 1869 Trinidade petrel Pterodroma baraui² Jouanin 1964 Barau's petrel Pterodroma macroptera² Smith 1840 great-winged petrel Pterodroma mollis² Gould 1844 soft-plumaged petrel Puffinus assimilis² Gould 1838 little shearwater "Pterodroma ? aterrima" = Pseudobulweria aterrima² Bonaparte 1857 Mascarene petrel
Sphenisciformes - Spheniscidae	Eudyptes chrysocome² Eudyptes chrysocome² Forster 1781 southern rockhopper penguin
Anseriformes - Anatidae	Anas marecula n. sp. Anas marecula n. sp. Olson and Jouventin 1996 dabbling duck
Galliformes - Phasianidae	Gallus gallus² Gallus gallus² Linnaeus 1758 chicken
Charadriiformes - Stercorariidae	Stercorarius antarcticus¹ Stercorarius antarcticus¹ Lesson 1831 brown skua ssp. hamiltoni

¹Clements et al. 2017; ²Worthy and Jouventin 1999