Where: Papua New Guinea (2.9° S, 151.4° E: paleocoordinates 2.9° S, 151.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene to Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• The deposits at Balof 1 are ~1 m deep and substantially reworked by oven pits dug in recent centuries. Deposits at Balof 2 are ~2 m deep and relatively undisturbed, as corroborated by a sequence of 14C dates. Both sites are as old as 14,000 B.P. but were occupied only intermittently.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: sinkhole; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. W. Steadman, J. P. White, and J. Allen. 1999. Prehistoric birds from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea: extinctions on a large Melanesian island. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 96:2563-2568 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis
PaleoDB collection 194694: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.06.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
Cuculidae indet. Leach 1820 cuckoo
Centropus sp. Illiger 1811 cuckoo | |
Ducula sp., Columba sp., Caloenas nicobarica, Ptilinopus sp., "Gallicolumba beccarii" = Alopecoenas beccarii, Macropygia amboinensis, Macropygia nigrirostris
Ducula sp. Hodgson 1836 imperial pigeon
Columba sp. Linnaeus 1758 dove
Caloenas nicobarica Linnaeus 1758 Nicobar pigeon
Ptilinopus sp. Swainson 1825 fruit dove
"Gallicolumba beccarii" = Alopecoenas beccarii Salvadori 1876 bronze ground-dove
Macropygia amboinensis Linnaeus 1766 Amboyna cuckoo-dove
Macropygia nigrirostris Salvadori 1876 black-billed cuckoo-dove | |
Charmosyna sp. Wagler 1832 parrot | |
cf. Cacatua sp. Vieillot 1817 cockatoo | |
Alcedo atthis Linnaeus 1758 common kingfisher | |
"Ninox cf. solomonis" = Ninox variegata
"Ninox cf. solomonis" = Ninox variegata Quoy and Gaimard 1830 Bismarck boobook | |
Tyto "sp. 2" Billberg 1828 barn owl | |
Rallidae indet., cf. Rallina tricolor, Gallirallus "n. sp.", Gallirallus philippensis, "Amaurornis olivaceus" = Amaurornis olivacea, Porphyrio "n. sp."
cf. Rallina tricolor Gray 1858 red-necked crake
Gallirallus "n. sp." Lafresnaye 1841 rail
Gallirallus philippensis Linnaeus 1766 buff-banded rail
"Amaurornis olivaceus" = Amaurornis olivacea Meyen 1834 plain bush-hen
Porphyrio "n. sp." Brisson 1760 rail | |
Collocalia esculenta Linnaeus 1758 glossy swiftlet | |
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Mino dumontii Lesson 1827 yellow-faced myna | |
Corvus sp. Linnaeus 1758 crow | |
Haliastur indus Boddaert 1783 brahminy kite
Accipiter novaehollandiae Gmelin 1788 gray goshawk | |
"Coturnix chinensis" = Synoicus chinensis
"Coturnix chinensis" = Synoicus chinensis Linnaeus 1766 blue-breasted quail | |
Megapodius "n. sp." Gaimard 1823 scrubfowl
Megapodius eremita Hartlaub 1868 Melanesian scrubfowl | |
"Aceros plicatus" = Rhyticeros plicatus
"Aceros plicatus" = Rhyticeros plicatus Forster 1781 Blyth's hornbill |