Kitchen Cave rockshelter site KAM-1, layer I: Holocene, French Polynesia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Hydrobatidae
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Nesofregetta fuliginosa
(Gmelin 1789)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Procellariidae
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Puffinus cf. bailloni
Bonaparte 1857
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| Puffinus magn. P. bailloni | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | French Polynesia |
| Coordinates: | 23.2° South, 135.0° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | |
| 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: | 0.0117 - 0 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | maximum 650 YBP (14C) |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: A series of 13 radiocarbon dates indicates initial occupation beginning around AD 1300 and more-or-less continual use of the rockshelter (probably intermittently) until European contact. |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | calcareous sandstone |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | archaeological analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 198020 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2018-12-07 00:05:59 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-12-07 00:05:59 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 67506. | S. Rigal, P. V. Kirch, and T. H. Worthy. 2018. New prehistoric avifaunas from the Gambier Group, French Polynesia. Palaeontologia Electronica 21(3.4A):1-35 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |