San Miguel Island V-16: Late/Upper Pleistocene, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Gaviidae
Gavia immer (Brunnich 1764)
1 specimen
Reptilia - Procellariidae
Fulmarus glacialis (Linnaeus 1761)
4 specimens
Puffinus griseus (Gmelin 1789)
8 specimens
recombined as Ardenna grisea
Puffinus tenuirostris (Temminck 1823)
4 specimens
recombined as Ardenna tenuirostris
Puffinus opisthomelas Coues 1864
2 specimens
Reptilia - Diomedeidae
Phoebastria albatrus (Pallas 1769)
9 specimens
Reptilia - Suliformes - Phalacrocoracidae
Phalacrocorax penicillatus (Brandt 1837)
2 specimens
Phalacrocorax pelagicus Pallas 1811
2 specimens
Reptilia - Suliformes - Sulidae
Morus reyanus Howard 1936
3 specimens
Reptilia - Podicipediformes - Podicipedidae
Aechmophorus sp. Coues 1862
1 specimen
Podiceps nigricollis Brehm 1831
8 specimens
Reptilia - Strigiformes - Tytonidae
Tyto alba (Scopoli 1769)
2 specimens
Reptilia - Strigiformes - Strigidae
Athene cunicularia (Molina 1782)
2 specimens
Reptilia - Anseriformes - Anatidae
Branta canadensis (Linnaeus 1758)
21 specimens
Chen caerulescens (Linnaeus 1758)
3 specimens
recombined as Anser caerulescens
Anser albifrons Scopoli 1769
2 specimens
Melanitta perspicillata (Linnaeus 1758)
1 specimen
Melanitta fusca (Linnaeus 1758)
1 specimen
Chendytes lawi Miller 1925
127 specimens
Reptilia - Accipitriformes - Accipitridae
Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Linnaeus 1766)
21 specimens
Buteo jamaicensis (Gmelin 1788)
19 specimens
Reptilia - Falconidae
Polyborus plancus (Miller 1777)
2 specimens
Falco peregrinus Tunstall 1771
3 specimens
Reptilia - Charadriiformes - Charadriidae
Pluvialis squatarola (Linnaeus 1758)
1 specimen
Charadrius semipalmatus Bonaparte 1825
1 specimen
Reptilia - Charadriiformes - Scolopacidae
Numenius phaeopus (Linnaeus 1758)
2 specimens
Phalaropus fulicaria (Linnaeus 1758)
12 specimens
recombined as Phalaropus fulicarius
Reptilia - Charadriiformes - Alcidae
Uria aalge (Pontoppidan 1763)
39 specimens
Synthliboramphus hypoleucus (Xantas 1860)
1 specimen
Synthliboramphus antiquus (Gmelin 1789)
913 specimens
Ptychoramphus aleuticus (Pallas 1811)
840 specimens
Fratercula dowi Guthrie et al. 2000
13 specimens
Reptilia - Charadriiformes - Laridae
Rissa tridactyla Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
Larus sp. Linnaeus 1758
3 specimens
large
Larus californicus Lawrence 1854
1 specimen
Larus delawarensis Ord 1815
2 specimens
Larus philadelphia (Ord 1815)
2 specimens
recombined as Chroicocephalus philadelphia
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:Santa Barbara
Coordinates: 34.0° North, 120.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.0° North, 120.4° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: poorly lithified sandstone
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:176102
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-01-28 09:55:26 Last modified:2018-07-13 11:50:34
Access level:the public Released:2016-01-28 09:55:26
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

57804. D. A. Guthrie. 2005. Distribution and provenance of fossil avifauna on San Miguel Island. Sixth California Islands Symposium. Institute of Wildlife Studies and National Park Service 35-42 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]