Where: Northern Mariana Islands (14.9° N, 145.6° E: paleocoordinates 14.9° N, 145.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• Layers II-IV are pottery-rich, prehistoric cultural deposits spanning more than a millennium
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fissure fill; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
• Essentially all non-human bones from Layer IV are burned, providing clear evidence of human cookery
Preservation: anthropogenic
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 194643: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.06.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
Fregata ariel Gray 1845 Lesser frigatebird | |
Columbidae indet. Illiger 1811 dove
Ptilinopus roseicapilla Lesson 1831 Mariana fruit-dove
"Gallicolumba xanthonura" = Alopecoenas xanthonurus Temminck 1823 white-throated ground-dove | |
Rallidae indet. Vigors 1825 rail
Gallirallus sp. Lafresnaye 1841 rail
Porzana sp. Vieillot 1816 rail | |
Passeriformes indet. Linnaeus 1758 perching bird | |
"Myzomela rubrata" = Myzomela rubratra
"Myzomela rubrata" = Myzomela rubratra Lesson 1827 Micronesian myzomela | |
Aplonis opaca Kittlitz 1833 Micronesian starling | |
Zosterops conspicillatus Kittlitz 1833 bridled white-eye | |
Pluvialis fulva Gmelin 1789 Pacific golden-plover | |
"Gygis candida" = Gygis alba candida, Anous stolidus
"Gygis candida" = Gygis alba candida Gmelin 1789 Pacific white tern
Anous stolidus Linnaeus 1758 brown noddy | |
Megapodius laperouse Gaimard 1823 Micronesian scrubfowl | |
Reptilia | |
Squamata indet. Oppel 1811 squamates | |
Mammalia | |
Pteropus sp. Brisson 1762 flying fox | |
Homo sapiens Linnaeus 1758 human |