Sugar Loaf Hill (Kerr collection): Late/Upper Pleistocene, Saint Helena
collected by Norman Kerr
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Oceanitidae
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Pelagodroma marina
(Latham 1790)
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Reptilia
- Procellariidae
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Pterodroma informal medium sp.
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= Pterodroma rupinarum
Olson 1975
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Puffinus cf. pacificus
(Gmelin 1789)
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= Puffinus pacificoides
Olson 1975
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Puffinus sp.
Brisson 1760
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Puffinus assimilis/P. lherminieri | ||||||||||
= Puffinus lherminieri
Lesson 1839
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Olson 1975 | |||||||||
Pterodroma informal small sp.
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= Bulweria bifax
Olson 1975
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Reptilia
- Columbiformes
- Columbidae
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Columbidae indet.
Illiger 1811
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= Dysmoropelia dekarchiskos
Olson 1975
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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: | Norman Kerr |
Metadata
Database number: | 194247 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2018-06-17 14:38:14 | Last modified: | 2018-06-17 14:38:14 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-06-17 14:38:14 |
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] |