Where: Bermuda (32.3° N, 64.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.3° N, 64.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• The presence of Anas pachyscelus, Grus latipes, and Rallus ibycus indicate deposition no younger than glacial MIS 6, although this fauna could possibly have existed from MIS 8 through 6.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fissure fill; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Wingate, Brodkorb in 1960; reposited in the FMNH, USNM
Primary reference: S. L. Olson and D. B. Wingate. 2000. Two new species of flightless rails (Aves: Rallidae) from the Middle Pleistocene "crane fauna" of Bermuda. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 113:356-368 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 194465: 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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Pipilo naufragus Olson and Wingate 2012 Bermuda towhee | |
Rallus ibycus n. sp., Porzana piercei n. sp.
Rallus ibycus n. sp. Olson and Wingate 2000 lesser Bermuda rail
Porzana piercei n. sp. Olson and Wingate 2000 lesser Bermuda crake | |