Where: Bermuda (32.4° N, 64.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.4° N, 64.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• Level v?, in spoil by stalagmite in test pit of large talus cone. Level v dates to the last (Wisconsinan) glacial (MIS 2-4)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: cave; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: S. L. Olson. 2008. A new genus and species of buteonine hawk from Quaternary deposits in Bermuda (Aves: Accipitridae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 121:130-141 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 194451: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.06.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
Buteo cf. jamaicensis Gmelin 1788 red-tailed hawk | |
Pipilo naufragus Olson and Wingate 2012 Bermuda towhee |