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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Anas marecula n. sp.
Anas marecula n. sp. Olson and Jouventin 1996 dabbling duck | |
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Pterodroma sp.2, Pterodroma arminjoniana2, Pterodroma macroptera2, Pterodroma baraui2, Pterodroma mollis2, Pelecanoides urinatrix2, Procellaria cinerea2, Puffinus assimilis2, Pachyptila sp.2, "Pachyptila macgillivrayi" = Pachyptila salvini macgillivrayi2, Pachyptila cf. desolata2, Pachyptila cf. turtur2, "Puffinus cf. griseus" = Ardenna grisea2, "Puffinus carneipes" = Ardenna carneipes2, "Pterodroma ? aterrima" = Pseudobulweria aterrima2
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