Where: Macquarie Island, Australia (54.6° S, 158.9° E: paleocoordinates 54.5° S, 158.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• Recent radiocarbon dating of eight King Penguin bones from this location (including bones collected by McEvey and more recently by Oosthuizen and Arthur) revealed them to average 7,927 (range 6,834-8,429) years old (Heupink et al. 2012).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. J. D. Tennyson and R. P. Scofield. 2013. Holocene fossil bird remains from subantarctic Macquarie Island. Proceeding of the 8th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution 239-251 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 194608: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.06.2018

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