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