Where: Reunion (21.1° S, 55.3° E: paleocoordinates 21.1° S, 55.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• The bones are poorly preserved and appear recent. The tortoise disappeared from this part of the island between 1717 and 1732 (Bour, 1980a), and Lepus nigricollis was introduced between 1868 and 1887 (Cheke, 1987), so the age of the animal remains is unknown.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J.M. Probst, P. Brial in 1996

Collection methods: sieve

• Repository: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Saint-Denis, La Reunion

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 193997: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.06.2018

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