Ulon-1 cave, Ulong Island (Holocene of Palau)

Where: Palau (7.3° N, 134.3° E: paleocoordinates 7.3° N, 134.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• 0-5 cm depth

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. K. Pregill and D. W. Steadman. 2000. Fossil vertebrates from Palau, Micronesia: a resource assessment. Micronesica 33:137-152 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 209745: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.05.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Megapodiidae
Megapodius laperouse Gaimard 1823 Micronesian scrubfowl
Aves
 Phaethontiformes - Phaethontidae
Phaethon lepturus Daudin 1802 white-tailed tropicbird
 Columbiformes - Columbidae
"Gallicolumba canifrons" = Alopecoenas canifrons
"Gallicolumba canifrons" = Alopecoenas canifrons Hartlaub and Finsch 1872 Palau ground-dove
 Charadriiformes - Laridae
Anous stolidus Linnaeus 1758 brown noddy
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Muridae
Rattus sp. Fischer 1803 rat
 Chiroptera - Pteropodidae
Pteropus sp. Brisson 1762 flying fox