Where: Cook Islands (18.9° S, 159.8° W: paleocoordinates 18.9° S, 159.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• Charcoal-based radiocarbon chronology of Ureia ranges from 200 ± 50 yr B.P. (layer III) to 1040 ± 80 yr B.P. (layer VII). Attempts to date the very small amounts of charcoal from strata below layer VII have not been successful.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified grainstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M.S. Allen, S.E. Schubel, D.W. Steadman in 1987

Collection methods: quarrying

Primary reference: D. W. Steadman. 1991. Extinct and extirpated birds from Aitutaki and Atiu, southern Cook Islands. Pacific Science 45:325-347 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 193448: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.05.2018

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