Site 3, Bikrak Island (Holocene of Marshall Islands)

Where: Marshall Islands (11.2° N, 169.8° E: paleocoordinates 11.2° N, 169.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: anthropogenic

Primary reference: M. I. Weisler. 2001. Life on the edge: prehistoric settlement and economy on Utrōk Atoll, northern Marshall Islands. Archaeology in Oceania 36:109-133 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 194997: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.07.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Procellariiformes - Procellariidae
Procellariidae indet. Vigors 1825 petrel
Puffinus sp. Brisson 1760 shearwater
 Charadriiformes - Laridae
Sterninae indet. Bonaparte 1838 tern
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Sus scrofa Linnaeus 1758 wild boar
 Rodentia - Muridae
Rattus exulans Peale 1848 rat
Actinopteri
 Cirrhitiformes - Cirrhitidae
 Labriformes - Scaridae
Scaridae indet.
Includes 43 Scarus/Hipposcarus
Scarinae indet. Rafinesque 1810
Scarus spp. Gronovius 1763
 Labriformes - Labridae
Labridae indet. Cuvier 1816
cf. Thalassoma sp. Swainson 1839
 Perciformes - Serranidae
Serranidae indet. Swainson 1839 perch-like fish
 Spariformes - Lethrinidae
 Acanthuriformes - Acanthuridae
Naso sp. Lacépède 1802
 Tetraodontiformes - Ostraciidae
 Tetraodontiformes - Tetraodontidae
 Tetraodontiformes - Diodontidae
 Acanthomorphata - Siganidae
 Acanthomorphata - Kyphosidae
 Acanthomorphata - Lutjanidae
 Holocentriformes - Holocentridae
Holocentridae indet. Richardson 1846