Where: Tonga (21.4° S, 174.9° W: paleocoordinates 21.4° S, 174.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene to Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• Stratum II/III is mixed pre-human sediment from slumped lower walls of the excavation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: cave; calcareous siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the FLMNH
Primary reference: D. W. Steadman. 1993. Biogeography of Tongan birds before and after human impact. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 90:818-822 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis
PaleoDB collection 194717: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.06.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Reptilia | |
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Megapodius alimentum Steadman 1989 consumed scrubfowl | |
| Aves | |
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Accipiter cf. rufitorques Peale 1848 Fiji goshawk | |
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"Vini solitarius" = Phigys solitarius
"Vini solitarius" = Phigys solitarius Suckow 1800 collared lory | |
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"Gallicolumba stairi" = Alopecoenas stairi Gray 1856 shy ground-dove
Ducula "n. sp." Hodgson 1836 imperial pigeon
Ducula david Balouet and Olson 1987 Steadman's imperial-pigeon | |
"Halcyon chloris" = Todiramphus chloris
"Halcyon chloris" = Todiramphus chloris Boddaert 1783 collared kingfisher | |
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Lalage maculosa Peale 1848 Polynesian triller | |
"Foulehaio carunculata" = Foulehaio carunculatus
"Foulehaio carunculata" = Foulehaio carunculatus Gmelin 1788 eastern wattled-honeyeater | |
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Turdus poliocephalus Latham 1801 island thrush | |
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Aplonis tabuensis Gmelin 1788 Polynesian starling | |
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Eopsaltria sp. Swainson 1832 perching bird | |
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Clytorhynchus vitiensis Hartlaub 1866 Fiji shrikebill | |