Makauwahi Cave, East Pit (Holocene of the United States)

Where: Kauai County, Hawaii (21.9° N, 159.4° W: paleocoordinates 21.9° N, 159.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• Unit IV. Specimens come from 310-459 cm depth in Holocene sediments dating from c. 2500 BC to c. 1300 AD.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; unlithified, sandy peat

• Freshwater-brackish lake
• Peaty sand/sandy peat

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (BPBM); Porch research collection, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, Australia

Primary reference: J. K. Liebherr and N. Porch. 2015. Reassembling a lost lowland carabid beetle assemblage (Coleoptera) from Kauai, Hawaiian Islands. Invertebrate Systematics 29:191-213 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 224099: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.01.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Coleoptera - Carabidae
Blackburnia (Blackburnia) rugosa Liebherr and Porch 2015 ground beetle
Blackburnia (Blackburnia) bryophila Liebherr 2000 ground beetle
Blackburnia (Blackburnia) mothra Liebherr and Porch 2015 ground beetle