PBDB Collection

Pinza-abu Cave, Ueno (Pleistocene of Japan)

Where: Japan (24.7° N, 125.3° E: paleocoordinates 24.7° N, 125.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Radiocarbon dating of wood from the site yielded dates of 25,800 +/- 900 BP and 26,800 +/- 1,300 BP (Hamada, 1985)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. Matsuoka. 2000. The Late Pleistocene fossil birds of the central and southern Ryukyu Islands, and their zoogeographical implications for the Recent avifauna of the archipelago. Tropics 10:165-188 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 193440: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.05.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "Fullica atra, Rallina eurizonoides, Gallinura chloropus, Fullica? sp., and Sterna sp. in list of Ono & Hasegawa (1985) are doubtful and perhaps nonexistent"

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Aves
Gruiformes - Gruidae	Grus "sp. nov." Grus "sp. nov." Brisson 1760 crane
Gruiformes - Rallidae	Rallus "sp. nov.", "Porzana fusca" = Zapornia fusca, Gallirallus sp. Rallus "sp. nov." Linnaeus 1758 rail "Porzana fusca" = Zapornia fusca Linnaeus 1766 ruddy-breasted crake Gallirallus sp. Lafresnaye 1841 rail Rallus cf. okinawae in Ono & Hasegawa (1985)
Strigiformes - Strigidae	Strigidae indet. Strigidae indet. Vigors 1825 true owl Ono & Hasegawa (1985) listed Strix and Asio cf. otus, but only one recognized here
Columbiformes - Columbidae	Columba janthina, Streptopelia orientalis Columba janthina Temminck 1830 Japanese wood-pigeon Streptopelia orientalis Latham 1790 oriental turtle-dove
Anseriformes - Anatidae	Anser anser, Aix galericulata Anser anser Linnaeus 1758 greylag goose Aix galericulata Linnaeus 1758 mandarin duck Anas sp. in Ono & Hasegawa (1985)
Passeriformes - Turdidae	Turdus pallidus, "cf. Zoothera major" = Zoothera dauma major Turdus pallidus Gmelin 1789 pale thrush "cf. Zoothera major" = Zoothera dauma major Ogawa 1905 Amami thrush
Passeriformes - Sylviidae	"Sylviinae indet." = Sylviidae "Sylviinae indet." = Sylviidae Vigors 1825 perching bird
Passeriformes - Pycnonotidae	Hypsipetes amaurotis Hypsipetes amaurotis Temminck 1830 brown-eared bulbul
Passeriformes - Emberizidae	Emberizidae indet. Emberizidae indet. Vigors 1831 old world bunting
Passeriformes - Corvidae	Corvus macrorhynchos Corvus macrorhynchos Wagler 1827 large-billed crow
Suliformes - Phalacrocoracidae	"Phalacrocorax filamentosus" = Phalacrocorax capillatus "Phalacrocorax filamentosus" = Phalacrocorax capillatus Temminck and Schlegel 1849 Japanese cormorant
Galliformes - Phasianidae	Coturnix japonica, "Excalfactoria chinensis" = Synoicus chinensis Coturnix japonica Temminck and Schlegel 1849 Japanese quail "Excalfactoria chinensis" = Synoicus chinensis Linnaeus 1766 blue-breasted quail
Charadriiformes - Scolopacidae	Scolopacidae indet., Scolopax mira Scolopacidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 snipe Scolopax mira Hartert 1916 Amami woodcock Scolopax cf. rusticola in Ono & Hasegawa (1985)
Charadriiformes - Turnicidae	Turnix suscitator Turnix suscitator Gmelin 1789 barred buttonquail
Accipitriformes - Accipitridae	cf. Haliaeetus pelagicus, Butastur indicus, Buteo buteo cf. Haliaeetus pelagicus Pallas 1811 Steller's sea-eagle Butastur indicus Gmelin 1788 gray-faced buzzard One of Buteo buteo in Ono & Hasegawa (1985) Buteo buteo Linnaeus 1758 common buzzard