Dry Gut, near Bencoolen (BOU Centenary collection): Holocene, Saint Helena
collected by B.O.U. Centenary Expedition 1959
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Procellariidae
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Pterodroma sp.
Bonaparte 1856
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= Pterodroma rupinarum
Olson 1975
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Reptilia
- Bucerotiformes
- Upupidae
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Upupa epops
Linnaeus 1758
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= Upupa antaios
Olson 1975
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Saint Helena |
Coordinates: | 16.0° South, 5.7° West (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 16.0° South, 5.7° West |
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Holocene |
Key time interval: | Holocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 0.01170 - 0.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: "The deposits at Dry Gut may therefore date to the Holocene, when the climate was less windy in the southeast Atlantic, within the South Atlantic gyre that largely governs the climate of St Helena (Lewis et al., 2008), than in the Late Glacial (Stuut et al., 2002; Dupont et al., 2004)." Lewis, 2008 |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | unlithified sandstone |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Museum repositories: | BMNH | ||
Collectors: | B.O.U. Centenary Expedition | Collection dates: | 1959 |
Metadata
Database number: | 194245 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2018-06-17 14:25:25 | Last modified: | 2018-06-17 14:25:25 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-06-17 14:25:25 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
65979. | N. P. Ashmole. 1963. The extinct avifauna of St. Helena Island. Ibis 103b:390-408 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |
Secondary references:
57791 | S. L. Olson. 1975. Paleornithology of St. Helena Island, South Atlantic Ocean. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 23:1-49 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |