San Miguel Island V-11 (Pleistocene of the United States)

Also known as Gull Rock east

Where: Santa Barbara County, California (34.0° N, 120.3° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 120.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: eolian; lithology not reported

• eolianite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. A. Guthrie. 1992. A late Pleistocene avifauna from San Miguel Island, California. Science Series (Los Angeles) 36:319-327 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 120830: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 22.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Charadriiformes - Scolopacidae
Numenius phaeopus Linnaeus 1758 whimbrel
 Charadriiformes - Laridae
Larus californicus Lawrence 1854 California gull
 Charadriiformes - Alcoidae
Uria aalge Pontoppidan 1763 Common murre
Synthliboramphus hypoleucus Xantas 1860 Guadalupe murrelet
Synthliboramphus antiquus Gmelin 1789 Ancient murrelet
Ptychoramphus aleuticus Pallas 1811 Cassin's auklet
Fratercula dowi Guthrie et al. 2000 puffin
 Procellariiformes - Hydrobatidae
Oceanodroma homochroa Coues 1864 ashy storm-petrel
 Anseriformes - Anatidae
Melanitta perspicillata Linnaeus 1758 surf scoter
Melanitta fusca Linnaeus 1758 velvet scoter
Chendytes lawi Miller 1925 Law's diving-goose
 Podicipediformes - Podicipedidae
Podiceps nigricollis Brehm 1831 black-necked grebe