DM/A, Dos Mosquises (Holocene of Venezuela)

Where: Venezuela (11.8° N, 66.9° W: paleocoordinates 11.8° N, 66.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• All remaining indigenous temporary occupations of the islands discussed here occurred between ∼AD 1000 and 1500 (Antczak and Antczak 1993, 2006).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: anthropogenic, midden

Primary reference: M. M. Antczak, A. T. Antczaj, and M. Lentino. 2019. Avian remains from late pre-colonial Amerindian sites on islands of the Venezuelan Caribbean. Environmental Archaeology 24:161-181 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 197931: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.12.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Charadriiformes - Laridae
"Leucophaeus atricilla" = Larus atricilla
"Leucophaeus atricilla" = Larus atricilla Linnaeus 1758 laughing gull
 Suliformes - Sulidae
Sula sp. Brisson 1760 booby
Sula sula Linnaeus 1766 red-footed booby
 Pelecaniformes - Threskiornithidae
"Ajaja cf. ajaja" = Platalea ajaja
"Ajaja cf. ajaja" = Platalea ajaja Linnaeus 1758 roseate spoonbill
 Pelecaniformes - Pelecanidae
Pelecanus occidentalis Linnaeus 1766 brown pelican
 Phoenicopteriformes - Phoenicopteridae
Phoenicopterus ruber Linnaeus 1758 American flamingo