Where: Northern Mariana Islands (15.0° N, 145.6° 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 transition from historic to prehistoric times is difficult to discern in the absence of pottery or radiocarbon dates but probably lies within Layer II, i.e., below the goat bones (II,3) but above the single bone of Porzana sp. (II,9).
• 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 194637: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.06.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Capra hircus Linnaeus 1758 domestic goat | |
Rattus exulans Peale 1848 rat |