Where: Fiji (17.9° S, 177.5° E: paleocoordinates 17.9° S, 177.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• This assemblage was inferred to pre-date human occupation of the area as there was no midden debris (mollusc shells, pottery, or charcoal) in the sediment matrix containing the fossils, despite its abundance in sediments elsewhere around the site.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: bone collector

Primary reference: T. H. Worthy. 2001. A giant flightless pigeon gen. et sp. nov. and a new species of Ducula (Aves: Columbidae), from Quaternary deposits in Fiji. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 31:763-794 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 194728: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.06.2018

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