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 3 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 194918: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.07.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
Anserinae "indet. medium" Vigors 1825 goose
Anatinae "indet. large" Vigors 1825 duck
Melanitta sp. Boie 1822 scoter | |
Limosa fedoa Linnaeus 1758 marbled godwit |