Tangatatau Rockshelter, zone G, Mangaia: Holocene, Cook Islands

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Phaethontiformes - Phaethontidae
Phaethon lepturus Daudin 1802
1 specimen
Reptilia - Columbiformes - Columbidae
Ducula galeata (Bonaparte 1855)
1 specimen
Reptilia - Psittaciformes - Psittaculidae
Vini kuhlii (Vigors 1824)
2 specimens
2 specimens
Reptilia - Gruiformes - Rallidae
Gallirallus ripleyi Steadman 1987
2 specimens
Porzana tabuensis (Gmelin 1789)
1 specimen
recombined as Zapornia tabuensis
Reptilia - Phasianidae
Gallus gallus (Linnaeus 1758)
6 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Cook Islands
Coordinates: 21.9° South, 157.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:21.9° South, 157.9° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Holocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Holocene
Age range of interval:0.01170 - 0.00000 m.y. ago
Age estimate:900 ± 70 YBP (14C)
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,anthropogenic
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Metadata
Database number:194762
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2018-06-28 23:15:06 Last modified:2018-06-28 23:15:06
Access level:the public Released:2018-06-28 23:15:06
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
66191. D. W. Steadman and P. V. Kirch. 1990. Prehistoric extinction of birds on Mangaia, Cook Islands, Polynesia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 87:9605-9609 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]