Where: Northern Mariana Islands (15.0° N, 145.7° E: paleocoordinates 15.0° N, 145.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• The two sediment Layers at Seabird Crevice are loose, rubbly, poorly stratified, and poorly differentiated from each other. The surface and Layer I at Seabird Crevice contained historic materials from World War II (gas mask parts, rusted iron, glass, ammunition, unexploded grenade). Seabird Crevice yielded no pottery or other evidence of prehistoric human occupation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fissure fill; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by D.W. Steadman, C.C. Bodner, S.R. Derrickson, J.D. Groves, D.S. Lee in 1994
Primary reference: D. W. Steadman. 1999. The prehistory of vertebrates, especially birds, on Tinian, Aguiguan, and Rota, Northern Mariana Islands. Micronesica 31:319-345 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 194631: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.06.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
Gallirallus sp. Lafresnaye 1841 rail | |
Reptilia | |
Squamata indet. Oppel 1811 squamates | |
Mammalia | |
Rattus exulans Peale 1848 rat |