Fisher Site (Holocene of the United States)
Where: Will County, Illinois (41.4° N, 88.2° W: paleocoordinates 41.4° N, 88.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: anthropogenic
Primary reference: P. W. Parmalee. 1958. Remains of rare and extinct birds from Illinois Indian sites. The Auk 75:169-176 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis
PaleoDB collection 195054: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.07.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Aves | |
"Olor buccinator" = Cygnus buccinator
"Olor buccinator" = Cygnus buccinator Richardson 1832 trumpeter swan | |
Ectopistes migratorius Linnaeus 1758 passenger pigeon | |
Corvus corax Linnaeus 1758 common raven |