Kitchen Cave rockshelter site KAM-1, layer III2: Holocene, French Polynesia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Phaethontiformes - Phaethontidae
Phaethon lepturus Daudin 1802
4 specimens
Phaethon rubricauda Boddaert 1783
1 specimen
Reptilia - Charadriiformes - Laridae
Laridae indet. Vigors 1825
4 specimens
Laridae magn. Procelsterna cerulea
Gygis alba (Sparman 1786)
2 specimens
Reptilia - Hydrobatidae
10 specimens
Reptilia - Procellariidae
Puffinus cf. bailloni Bonaparte 1857
3 specimens
Puffinus magn. P. bailloni
Reptilia - Suliformes - Fregatidae
Fregata ariel (Gray 1845)
1 specimen
Fregata minor (Gmelin 1789)
1 specimen
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:198023
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2018-12-07 00:10:16 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2018-12-07 00:10:16
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]