Site 1, Mangere Island: Holocene, New Zealand
collected by A.J.D. Tennyson 1987-1988

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Gruiformes - Rallidae
Gallirallus modestus (Hutton 1872)
Gallirallus dieffenbachii (Gray 1843)
Reptilia - Columbiformes - Columbidae
Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae (Gmelin 1789)
Reptilia - Psittaciformes - Psittaculidae
Cyanoramphus forbesi Rothschild 1893
Cyanoramphus auriceps forbesi
Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae (Sparrman 1787)
ssp. chathamensis
Reptilia - Psittaciformes - Strigopidae
Nestor informal ?n. sp.
    = Nestor chathamensis Wood et al. 2014
Wood et al. 2014
Reptilia - Passeriformes - Locustellidae
Bowdleria rufescens (Buller 1869)
recombined as Megalurus rufescens
Reptilia - Passeriformes - Petroicidae
Petroica traversi (Buller 1872)
Reptilia - Passeriformes - Meliphagidae
Anthornis melanocephala Gray 1843
Anthornis melanura melanocephala
Reptilia - Anseriformes - Anatidae
Tadorna informal ?n. sp.
Reptilia - Spheniscidae
Eudyptes informal ?n. sp.
Reptilia - Hydrobatidae
Oceanites nereis (Gould 1841)
recombined as Garrodia nereis
Reptilia - Procellariidae
Pelecanoides urinatrix (Gmelin 1789)
Pterodroma informal sp. 1 Bonaparte 1856
Pterodroma axillaris (Salvin 1893)
Pachyptila turtur (Kuhl 1820)
Pachyptila vittata (Forster 1777)
Reptilia - Charadriiformes - Laridae
Larus novaehollandiae Stephens 1826
recombined as Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae
Larus dominicanus Lichtenstein 1823
Reptilia - Charadriiformes - Scolopacidae
Coenocorypha pusilla (Butler 1869)
Coenocorypha chathamica (Forbes 1893)
see common names

Geography
Country:New Zealand
Coordinates: 44.3° South, 176.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.3° South, 176.3° 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
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: No material was dated by radiocarbon. Relative ages were inferred from species compositions. Site 1 contained six or seven species of bird not recorded in 1871-72, whereas Site 2 contained only two species not recorded then. Most of Site 1 is probably older than Site 2; both probably include material older than 1871. In the absence of absolute dates, the total times of deposition in the two sites must remain conjectural. However, it is likely that much of Site 2 was deposited in the late 1800s, after about 1865, whereas most of Site 1 was deposited before the mid 1800s. Hence, much of the material at Site 1 may be considerably older than that at Site 2, and may have been deposited before human settlement of the Chathams.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "siliciclastic"
Environment:loess
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:A.J.D. Tennyson Collection dates:1987-1988
Collection method comments: Repository: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Metadata
Database number:194614
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2018-06-23 11:12:28 Last modified:2018-06-23 11:53:34
Access level:the public Released:2018-06-23 11:12:28
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
66124. A. J. D. Tennyson and P. R. Millener. 1994. Bird extinctions and fossil bones from Mangere Island, Chatham Islands. Notornis, Supplement 41:165-178 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

67529 J. R. Wood, K. J. Mitchell, R. P. Scofield, A. J. D. Tennyson, A. E. Fidler, J. M. Wilmshurst, B. Llamas and A. Cooper. 2014. An extinct nestorid parrot (Aves, Psittaciformes, Nestoridae) from the Chatham Islands, New Zealand. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 172:185-199 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]