Where: New Zealand (44.0° S, 176.7° W: paleocoordinates 44.0° S, 176.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• Recent stratigraphic studies, supported by a large number of radiocarbon dates on bird bones, demonstrate that much of this so-called midden material has been eroded from naturally accumulated deposits that considerably predate human occupation by hundreds to thousands of years. An example is the abundant material from Sutton's main Waihora site (see Sutton, 1976, 1979, 1981, 1982; Marshall et al., 1987), which, apparently, was obtained by excavation of intact strata and was assumed to be entirely of midden origin, but which has yielded dates of ca. 5750 and ca. 5950 CAL BP (for Dieffenbach's Rail bones from Sutton's Layers I (NZA 3193) and III (NZA 3194), respectively; see Appendix, locality 1).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Sutton

• Repository: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand (Te Papa) (NMNZ).

Primary reference: P. R. Millener. 1999. The history of the Chatham Islands' bird fauna of the last 7000 years - a chronicle of change and extinction. Avian Paleontology at the Close of the 20th Century: Proceedings of the 4th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Washington, D.C, 4-7 June 1996. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 89:85-109 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 198102: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.12.2018

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