Ishisukuyama fissures (Pleistocene of Japan)

Where: Japan (24.4° N, 124.2° E: paleocoordinates 24.4° N, 124.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. Matsuoka. 2000. The Late Pleistocene fossil birds of the central and southern Ryukyu Islands, and their zoogeographical implications for the Recent avifauna of the archipelago. Tropics 10:165-188 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 193441: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.05.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Garrulus gladarius, Picidae indet., and Falconiformes indet. in list of Hasegawa & Nohara (1978) are doubtful or uncertain
Aves
 Anseriformes - Anatidae
Anatidae indet. Vigors 1825 waterfowl
 Passeriformes -
Passeriformes indet. Linnaeus 1758 perching bird
Fringillidae indet. in Hasegawa & Nohara (1978)
 Passeriformes - Corvidae
Corvus macrorhynchos Wagler 1827 large-billed crow
C. "connectens"
 Passeriformes - Turdidae
Turdus pallidus Gmelin 1789 pale thrush
Strunus sp. and Hypsipetes amaurotis in Hasegawa & Nohara (1978)
 Passeriformes - Pycnonotidae
Hypsipetes amaurotis Temminck 1830 brown-eared bulbul
 Strigiformes - Strigidae
cf. Otus manadensis Quoy and Gaimard 1830 Sulawesi scops-owl
cf. Strix uralensis Pallas 1771 Ural owl
 Columbiformes - Columbidae
Columbidae indet. Illiger 1811 dove
Streptopelia orientalis Latham 1790 oriental turtle-dove
 Gruiformes - Rallidae
Rallina eurizonoides Lafresnaye 1845 slaty-legged crake
Amaurornis phoenicurus Pennant 1769 white-breasted waterhen