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
Turnix sp. Bonnaterre 1791
Reptilia - Columbiformes - Columbidae
Macropygia sp. Swainson 1837
Reptilia - Gruiformes - Rallidae
Porzana sp. Vieillot 1816
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]