Liang Bua Sector XI, Spit 58: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Indonesia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Charadriiformes
- Turnicidae
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Turnix sp.
Bonnaterre 1791
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Reptilia
- Columbiformes
- Columbidae
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Macropygia sp.
Swainson 1837
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Reptilia
- Gruiformes
- Rallidae
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Porzana sp.
Vieillot 1816
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Indonesia | State/province: | East Nusa Tenggara | County: | Flores |
Coordinates: | 8.5° South, 120.4° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 8.5° South, 120.4° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
Altitude: | 500 meters | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
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
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | brown argillaceous siltstone |
Secondary lithology: | sandy siltstone |
Lithology description: Different levels in the local section include "brownish clayey silts and sandy silts... brownish clayey silts and silts...conglomerates with clayey silt matrix" | |
Environment: | cave |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | archaeological analysis |
Collection method comments: Repository: National Research and Development Centre for Archaeology in Jakarta, Indonesia |
Metadata
Database number: | 193383 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2018-05-15 22:44:48 | Last modified: | 2018-05-15 22:44:48 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-05-15 22:44:48 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
65709. | H. J. M. Meijer, T. Sutikna, E. W. Saptomo, R. A. Due, Jatmiko, S. Wasisto, H. F. James, M. J. Morwood, and M.W. Tocheri. 2013. Late Pleistocene-Holocene non-passerine avifauna of Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33:877-894 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |