Also known as Pindaï Caves, Grande Terre

Where: New Caledonia (21.3° S, 165.0° E: paleocoordinates 21.3° S, 165.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• Bone accumulations were found at two sites near lateral exits now filled by unstratified sediment. Bones occurred from the surface to depths of about 1.5 m, where excavation was discontinued. Charcoal obtained at a depth of about 50 cm, in direct association with bones of Sylviornis and other extinct birds, gave a radiocarbon age of 1750 ± 70 years BP (Gif. 6341 [CNRS laboratory at Gif sur Yvette, France], Balouet, 1984a).

Environment/lithology: cave; unlithified, phosphatic claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original carbon

Reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: J.-C. Balouet and E. Buffetaut. 1987. Mekosuchus inexpectatus, n. g., n. sp., Crocodilien nouveau de l'Holocene de Nouvelle Caledonie [Mekosuchus inexpectatus, n.g., n.sp., a new Holocene crocdilian from New Caledonia]. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences. Serie II 304(14):853-856 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13221: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 29.01.2002, edited by Evangelos Vlachos and Matthew Clapham

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