McDonough Lake Site (Holocene of the United States)

Where: Madison County, Illinois (38.7° N, 90.0° W: paleocoordinates 38.7° N, 90.0° 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 195056: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.07.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Charadriiformes - Scolopacidae
Numenius phaeopus Linnaeus 1758 whimbrel
 Columbiformes - Columbidae
Ectopistes migratorius Linnaeus 1758 passenger pigeon