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)
Environment/lithology: fissure fill; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Collected by D. Nicol, D.B. Wingate in 1956, 1958; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: A. Wetmore. 1960. Pleistocene birds in Bermuda. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 140(2):1-11 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 194468: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.06.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Aves | |
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Pterodroma cahow Nichols and Mowbray 1916 Bermuda petrel | |
Anas pachyscelus n. sp.
Anas pachyscelus n. sp. Wetmore 1960 Bermuda flightless duck | |
"Baeopteryx latipes n. gen. n. sp." = Grus latipes
"Baeopteryx latipes n. gen. n. sp." = Grus latipes Wetmore 1960 crane | |