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)

• A loose area of the excavation wall that had to be salvaged in such a way that Layers IV and V could not be distinguished. Layers II-IV are pottery-rich, prehistoric cultural deposits spanning more than a millennium. Layer V may be partly pre-human in age, based on a sharp decline in pottery content, lack of charcoal, and scarcity of burned bones.

• 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 194644: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.06.2018

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