Liang Bua Sector XII, Spit 45 (Pleistocene of Indonesia)

Where: East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia (8.5° S, 120.4° E: paleocoordinates 8.5° S, 120.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• ~120-60 ka

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; brown, argillaceous siltstone and sandy siltstone

• Different levels in the local section include "brownish clayey silts and sandy silts... brownish clayey silts and silts...conglomerates with clayey silt matrix"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Repository: National Research and Development Centre for Archaeology in Jakarta, Indonesia

Primary reference: H. J. M. Meijer, R. A. Due, T. Sutikna, W. Saptomo, Jatmiko, S. Wasisto, M. W. Tocheri and G. Mayr. 2017. Late Pleistocene songbirds of Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia); the first fossil passerine fauna described from Wallacea. PeerJ 5:e3676 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 193439: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.05.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Passeriformes - Sturnidae
cf. Acridotheres sp. Vieillot 1816 starling