Oamaru Gull Site (Holocene of New Zealand)

Where: South Island, New Zealand (45.1° S, 171.0° E: paleocoordinates 45.1° S, 171.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• just north of sewer pipe

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; peat

• in peat horizon

Primary reference: T. H. Worthy and J. A. Grant-Mackie. 2003. Late-Pleistocene avifaunas from Cape Wanbrow, Otago, South Island, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 33(1):427-485 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 87792: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 24.03.2009

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Taxonomic list

Aves
 Charadriiformes - Laridae
Larus dominicanus Lichtenstein 1823 kelp gull