Where: Efate, Vanuatu (17.8° S, 168.4° E: paleocoordinates 17.8° S, 168.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Australian Museum
Primary reference: A. W. White, T. H. Worthy, S. Hawkins, S. Bedford, and M. Spriggs. 2010. Megafaunal meiolaniid horned turtles survived until early human settlement in Vanuatu, Southwest Pacific. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107:1-5 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 185434: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 23.04.2017, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
Ardea alba modesta great egret | |
Reptilia | |
? Meiolania damelipi n. sp.
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Megapodius layardi Tristram 1879 Vanuatu scrubfowl
Megapodius ? layardi Tristram 1879 Vanuatu scrubfowl
Mwalau walterlinii n. gen. n. sp. Worthy et al. 2015 Lini's megapode | |
Gallus gallus Linnaeus 1758 chicken
cf. Gallus gallus Linnaeus 1758 chicken | |
Aves | |
Accipiter fasciatus Vigors and Horsfield 1827 brown goshawk | |
"? Puffinus pacificus" = Ardenna pacifica Gmelin 1789 wedge-tailed shearwater
? Pseudobulweria rostrata Peale 1848 Tahiti petrel
Puffinus cf. bailloni Bonaparte 1857 tropical shearwater | |
Sula leucogaster Boddaert 1783 brown booby | |
Threskiornis cf. molucca Cuvier 1829 Australian ibis | |
"Tyto delicatula" = Tyto alba delicatula
"Tyto delicatula" = Tyto alba delicatula Gould 1837 barn owl | |
Todiramphus cf. chloris Boddaert 1783 collared kingfisher | |
Cuculus optatus Gould 1845 oriental cuckoo
Centropus sp. Illiger 1811 cuckoo | |
Columbidae "indet. C. vitiensis", Columbidae "indet. D. placopedetes", Columbidae "indet. C. indica", Columbidae "indet. magn. D. pacifica", Columbidae "indet. magn. D. goliath", Columbidae "indet. P. greyi", Columbidae indet., Columba vitiensis, Chalcophaps indica, Ptilinopus cf. greyi, Didunculus placopedetes, Macropygia ? mackinlayi, Alopecoenas sp., Ducula pacifica, Ducula cf. pacifica, Ducula cf. goliath
Columbidae "indet. D. placopedetes" Illiger 1811 dove
Columbidae "indet. C. indica" Illiger 1811 dove
Columbidae "indet. magn. D. pacifica" Illiger 1811 dove
Columbidae "indet. magn. D. goliath" Illiger 1811 dove
Columbidae "indet. P. greyi" Illiger 1811 dove
Columbidae indet. Illiger 1811 dove
Columba vitiensis Quoy and Gaimard 1830 metallic pigeon
Chalcophaps indica Linnaeus 1758 Asian emerald dove
Ptilinopus cf. greyi Bonaparte 1857 red-bellied fruit-dove
Didunculus placopedetes Steadman 2006 Tongan tooth-billed pigeon
Macropygia ? mackinlayi Ramsay 1878 Mackinlay's cuckoo-dove
Alopecoenas sp. Sharpe 1899 dove
Ducula pacifica Gmelin 1789 Pacific imperial-pigeon
Ducula cf. pacifica Gmelin 1789 Pacific imperial-pigeon
Ducula cf. goliath Gray 1859 New Caledonian imperial-pigeon | |
Loriinae "indet. magn. C. palmarum" Selby 1836 parrot
Eclectus cf. infectus Steadman 2006 oceanic parrot | |
Rallidae "indet. P. melanotus", Rallidae "indet. large", "Porzana tabuensis" = Zapornia tabuensis, "Hypotaenidia philippensis" = Gallirallus philippensis, Porphyrio melanotus
Rallidae "indet. P. melanotus" Vigors 1825 rail
Rallidae "indet. large" Vigors 1825 rail
"Porzana tabuensis" = Zapornia tabuensis Gmelin 1789 spotless crake
"Hypotaenidia philippensis" = Gallirallus philippensis Linnaeus 1766 buff-banded rail
Porphyrio melanotus Temminck 1820 Australasian swamphen | |
Passeriformes indet. Linnaeus 1758 perching bird | |
Anas superciliosa Gmelin 1789 Pacific black duck | |
Rhyticeros cf. plicatus Forster 1781 Blyth's hornbill |