Where: Portugal (39.0° N, 28.0° W: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 28.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• The Caldeira volcano is 12,000 years old (França et al. 2003), so the materials inside the cave are necessarily younger. The remains of a Fringilla obtained in the same sedimentary unit as the material of the new species yielded a 14C age of 3029±31BP (1400-1190 cal BC; RICH-21754).

Environment/lithology: cave; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Museu Carlos Machado, São Miguel Island (Azores)

Primary reference: J. C. Rando, H. Pieper, S. L. Olson, F. Pereira, and J. A. Alcover. 2017. A new extinct species of large bullfinch (Aves: Fringillidae: Pyrrhula) from Graciosa Island (Azores, North Atlantic Ocean). Zootaxa 4282:567-583 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194292: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.06.2018

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