Also known as Rairua Swamp
Where: Austral Islands, French Polynesia (23.9° S, 147.7° W: paleocoordinates 23.9° S, 147.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• 150-200 cm depth, estimated age 1000-1500 years BP
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; unlithified peat
Size class: microfossils
Collected by N. Porch, T. Lewis in 2016
Collection methods: core,
• Repository: B. P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawai'i
Primary reference: J. Kolibáč, M. Bocakova, J. K. Liebherr, T. Ramage, and N. Porch. 2020. Extinct and extant Pacific Trogossitidae and the evolution of Cleroidea (Coleoptera) after the Late Triassic biotic crisis. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 191:846-882 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 219259: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.04.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Tenebroides (Polynesibroides) raivavae n. sp. Kolibáč and Porch 2020 bark gnawing beetle | |
Pycnomerus raivavae n. sp. Porch and Greig 2020 ironclad beetle
Pycnomerus vavitu Porch and Greig 2020 ironclad beetle
Pycnomerus rairua Porch and Greig 2020 ironclad beetle |