As Matmos Cliffside Cave (Holocene of Northern Mariana Islands)

Where: Northern Mariana Islands (14.2° N, 145.3° E: paleocoordinates 14.2° N, 145.3° 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

Preservation: bone collector

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 194649: 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 exulans Peale 1848 rat
 Chiroptera - Pteropodidae
Pteropus sp. Brisson 1762 flying fox
Reptilia
 Squamata -
Squamata indet. Oppel 1811 squamates
Serpentes indet. Linnaeus 1758 snake
 Squamata - Varanidae
Varanus cf. indicus monitor lizard
Aves
 Caprimulgiformes - Apodidae
"Collocalia vanikorensis" = Aerodramus vanikorensis
"Collocalia vanikorensis" = Aerodramus vanikorensis Quoy and Gaimard 1830 uniform swiftlet
 Passeriformes -
Passeriformes indet. Linnaeus 1758 perching bird
 Passeriformes - Sturnidae
Aplonis opaca Kittlitz 1833 Micronesian starling
 Passeriformes - Zosteropidae
Zosterops conspicillatus Kittlitz 1833 bridled white-eye
Cleptornis marchei Oustalet 1889 golden white-eye
 Passeriformes - Estrildidae
Erythrura "n. sp." Swainson 1837 parrotfinch
 Passeriformes - Meliphagidae
"Myzomela rubrata" = Myzomela rubratra
"Myzomela rubrata" = Myzomela rubratra Lesson 1827 Micronesian myzomela
 Columbiformes - Columbidae
Gallicolumba "n. sp." Heck 1849 dove
"Gallicolumba xanthonura" = Alopecoenas xanthonurus Temminck 1823 white-throated ground-dove
Ptilinopus roseicapilla Lesson 1831 Mariana fruit-dove
 Gruiformes - Rallidae
Porzana sp. Vieillot 1816 rail
 Procellariiformes - Procellariidae
Puffinus lherminieri Lesson 1839 Audubon's shearwater
 Galliformes - Megapodiidae
Megapodius laperouse Gaimard 1823 Micronesian scrubfowl