Gordons Valley 3 (Holocene of New Zealand)

Where: South Island, New Zealand (44.5° S, 171.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. H. Worthy. 1997. Quaternary fossil fauna of South Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 27(1):67-162 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 215420: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 10.11.2020

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Muridae
Mus musculus Linnaeus 1758 house mouse
Rattus exulans Peale 1848 rat
 Chiroptera - Mystacinidae
Mystacina robusta Dwyer 1962 New Zealand short-tailed bat
Aves
 Charadriiformes - Scolopacidae
Coenocorypha cf. aucklandica Gray 1845 subantarctic snipe
 Psittaciformes - Psittaculidae
Cyanoramphus sp. Bonaparte 1854 parrot
 Anseriformes - Anatidae
cf. Tadorna sp. Boie 1822 shelduck
? Tadorna variegata Gmelin 1789 Paradise shelduck
 Passeriformes - Mohouidae
Mohoua ochrocephala Gmelin 1789 yellowhead
Mohoua novaeseelandiae Gmelin 1789 pipipi
 Passeriformes - Acanthisittidae
Traversia fyalli New Zealand wren
Xenicus sp. Gray New Zealand wren
 Passeriformes - Oriolidae
Turnagra capensis Sparrman 1787 South Island piopio
 Passeriformes - Rhipiduridae
Rhipidura fuliginosa Sparrman 1787 New Zealand fantail
 Passeriformes - Petroicidae
Petroica australis Sparrman 1788 New Zealand robin
 Caprimulgiformes - Aegothelidae
Aegotheles novaezealandiae Scarlett 1968 New Zealand owlet-nightjar
Reptilia
 Squamata - Gekkonidae
Naultinus sp. Gray 1842 gecko
=Heteropholis
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Parastacidae
Paranephrops sp. White 1842 decapod