Where: Java, Indonesia (7.4° S, 111.4° E: paleocoordinates 7.4° S, 111.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• "in the younger Pleistocene bone-bearing terraces near the river, the deposits being situated uncomformably upon the Middle Pleistocene of the Trinil beds [and]... identical with the terraces at Ngandong where the skulls of Homo soloensis were found."
Environment/lithology: fluvial; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W. F. F. Oppenoorth
Collection methods: quarrying,
• "an excavation"
Primary reference: A. Wetmore. 1940. Avian remains from the Pleistocene of central Java. Journal of Paleontology 14(5):447-450 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 74620: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 16.08.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
Aegypiinae indet. Old World vulture | |
Leptoptilos titan n. sp.
Leptoptilos titan n. sp. Wetmore 1940 stork | |
Grus grus Linnaeus 1758 Common crane |