Emeryville shellmound (Uhle stratum 8): Holocene, California
collected by Max Uhle, John Merriam 1902

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Accipitriformes - Accipitridae
Buteo sp. de Lacepède 1799
7 specimens
Includes 2 Buteo jamaicensis/regalis
Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Linnaeus 1766)
4 specimens
Reptilia - Falconidae
1 specimen
Reptilia - Gaviidae
Gavia sp. Forster 1788
1 specimen
Gavia stellata/pacifica
Gavia immer (Brunnich 1764)
2 specimens
Gavia stellata (Pontoppidan 1763)
1 specimen
Reptilia - Pelecaniformes - Ardeidae
3 specimens
Reptilia - Pelecaniformes - Pelecanidae
3 specimens
3 specimens
Reptilia - Suliformes - Phalacrocoracidae
Phalacrocorax sp. Brisson 1760
98 specimens
1 specimen
Phalacrocorax auritus (Lesson 1831)
29 specimens
2 specimens
Reptilia - Strigiformes - Tytonidae
Tyto alba (Scopoli 1769)
10 specimens
Reptilia - Gruiformes - Gruidae
6 specimens
Reptilia - Gruiformes - Rallidae
Rallus longirostris Boddaert 1783
2 specimens
Fulica americana Gmelin 1789
2 specimens
Reptilia - Podicipediformes - Podicipedidae
Aechmophorus sp. Coues 1862
2 specimens
Aechmophorus occidentalis/clarkii
Podiceps sp. Latham 1787
1 specimen
Podiceps auritus/nigricollis
1 specimen
1 specimen
Reptilia - Passeriformes - Corvidae
29 specimens
2 specimens
Reptilia - Anseriformes - Anatidae
58 specimens
160 specimens
5 specimens
Chen rossii Cassin 1861
1 specimen
5 specimens
2 ssp. cf. parvipes, 3 ssp. cf. moffitti
14 specimens
83 specimens
1 specimen
9 specimens
2 specimens
Aythya sp. Boie 1822
1 specimen
1 specimen
Aythya cf. marila (Linnaeus 1761)
1 specimen
1 specimen
1 specimen
1 specimen
Melanitta sp. Boie 1822
10 specimens
Reptilia - Charadriiformes - Charadriidae
1 specimen
Reptilia - Charadriiformes - Alcidae
Uria sp. Brisson 1760
15 specimens
Reptilia - Charadriiformes - Laridae
5 specimens
2 specimens
Reptilia - Charadriiformes - Scolopacidae
Scolopacidae indet. Rafinesque 1815
2 specimens
L. fedoa/N. phaeopus
Numenius americanus Bechstein 1812
11 specimens
3 specimens
3 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:Alameda
Coordinates: 37.8° North, 122.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Holocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Holocene
Age range of interval: 0.0117 - 0 m.y. ago
Age estimate: 2070 ± 60 YBP (14C)
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,anthropogenic,midden
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:archaeological analysis
Collectors:Max Uhle, John Merriam Collection dates:1902
Collection method comments: Repository: Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology (PAHMA) at the University of California, Berkeley
Metadata
Database number:194912
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2018-07-06 22:40:39 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2018-07-06 22:40:39
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
66272. J. M. Broughton. 2004. Prehistoric human impacts on California birds: evidence from the Emeryville shellmoumd avifauna. Ornithological Monographs 56:1-90 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]