Alaguan Rockshelter (Holocene of Northern Mariana Islands)

Where: Northern Mariana Islands (14.1° N, 145.2° E: paleocoordinates 14.1° N, 145.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• Radiocarbon dates and presence of rat bones indicate age within the last 1000 years. The sediments had been disturbed by (prehistoric?) digging and filling associated with human burials.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194648: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.06.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Mammalia
 Rodentia - Muridae
Rattus rattus Linnaeus 1758 black rat
 Chiroptera - Pteropodidae
Pteropus sp. Brisson 1762 flying fox
Aves
 Charadriiformes - Laridae
Anous stolidus Linnaeus 1758 brown noddy
 Phaethontiformes - Phaethontidae
Phaethon lepturus Daudin 1802 white-tailed tropicbird
 Gruiformes - Rallidae
Porzana sp. Vieillot 1816 rail
 Pelecaniformes - Ardeidae
Egretta sacra Gmelin 1789 Pacific reef-heron