Sugar Loaf Hill (BOU Centenary collection): Late/Upper Pleistocene, Saint Helena
collected by B.O.U. Centenary Expedition 1959

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Oceanitidae
Pelagodroma marina (Latham 1790)
Reptilia - Procellariidae
Pterodroma informal small sp.
    = Bulweria bifax Olson 1975
Olson 1975
Puffinus sp. Brisson 1760
Puffinus assimilis/P. lherminieri
    = Puffinus lherminieri Lesson 1839
Olson 1975
Puffinus cf. pacificus (Gmelin 1789)
    = Puffinus pacificoides Olson 1975
Olson 1975
Pterodroma informal medium sp.
    = Pterodroma rupinarum Olson 1975
Olson 1975
Reptilia - Gruiformes - Rallidae
Columbidae informal indet. 2 Illiger 1811
    = Atlantisia podarces Wetmore 1963
Olson 1973
original and current combination Aphanocrex podarces
Reptilia - Columbiformes - Columbidae
Columbidae indet. Illiger 1811
    = Dysmoropelia dekarchiskos Olson 1975
Olson 1975
see common names

Geography
Country:Saint Helena
Coordinates: 15.9° South, 5.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:15.9° South, 5.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Late/Upper Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Radiocarbon dated to late Pleistocene by Lewis (2008).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified calcareous sandstone
Environment:eolian 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:194246
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2018-06-17 14:37:43 Last modified:2018-06-17 14:37:43
Access level:the public Released:2018-06-17 14:37:43
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:

65981 S. L. Olson. 1973. Evolution of the rails of the South Atlantic Islands (Aves: Rallidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 152:1-53 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
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]