Grotte "au sable" (Holocene of Reunion)

Where: Reunion (21.1° S, 55.2° E: paleocoordinates 21.1° S, 55.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. Bour, F. Moutou, R. Mourer, C.Mourer-Chauvire in 1980, 1987

Collection methods: sieve

• Repository: Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon 1

Primary reference: C. Mourer-Chauviré, R. Bour, S. Ribes and F. Moutou. 1999. The avifauna of Réunion Island (Mascarene Islands) at the time of the arrival of the first Europeans. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 89:1-38 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 193995: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.06.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Strigiformes - Strigidae
"Mascarenotus grucheti" = Otus grucheti
"Mascarenotus grucheti" = Otus grucheti Mourer-Chauviré et al. 1994 Gruchet's Mascarene owl
 Psittaciformes - Psittaculidae
"Mascarinus mascarinus" = Mascarinus mascarin
"Mascarinus mascarinus" = Mascarinus mascarin Linnaeus 1771 Mascarene parrot
 Columbiformes - Columbidae
Streptopelia picturata Temminck 1813 Madagascar turtle-dove
 Anseriformes - Anatidae
"Alopochen (Mascarenachen) kervazoi" = Alopochen kervazoi
"Alopochen (Mascarenachen) kervazoi" = Alopochen kervazoi Cowles 1994 Réunion shelduck
 Procellariiformes - Procellariidae
"Puffinus pacificus" = Ardenna pacifica, Puffinus lherminieri
"Puffinus pacificus" = Ardenna pacifica Gmelin 1789 wedge-tailed shearwater
Puffinus lherminieri Lesson 1839 Audubon's shearwater