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