Emeryville shellmound (Nelson stratum 3) (Holocene of the United States)

Where: Alameda County, California (37.8° N, 122.3° W: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 122.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• Equivalent to stratum 1 in Uhle excavation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: anthropogenic, midden

Collected by Nels Nelson in 1906

• Repository: Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology (PAHMA) at the University of California, Berkeley

Primary reference: J. M. Broughton. 2004. Prehistoric human impacts on California birds: evidence from the Emeryville shellmoumd avifauna. Ornithological Monographs 56:1-90 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 194916: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.07.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Suliformes - Phalacrocoracidae
Phalacrocorax auritus Lesson 1831 double-crested cormorant
 Passeriformes - Corvidae
Corvus brachyrhynchos Brehm 1822 American crow
 Anseriformes - Anatidae
Anserinae "indet. small" Vigors 1825 goose
Anserinae "indet. medium" Vigors 1825 goose
Anatinae "indet. large" Vigors 1825 duck
Aythya sp. Boie 1822 pochard
Anas "teal sp." Linnaeus 1758 dabbling duck
Melanitta sp. Boie 1822 scoter
 Charadriiformes - Scolopacidae
Numenius americanus Bechstein 1812 long-billed curlew