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
Pterodroma sp. Bonaparte 1856
    = Pterodroma rupinarum Olson 1975
Olson 1975
Reptilia - Bucerotiformes - Upupidae
Upupa epops Linnaeus 1758
    = Upupa antaios Olson 1975
Olson 1975
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]