Where: Macquarie Island, Australia (54.5° S, 158.9° E: paleocoordinates 54.5° S, 158.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• Recently at least 20 King Penguin bones were collected by Oosthuizen and Arthur from the Landing Beach on the Isthmus for DNA analysis; radiocarbon dating of seven of these

•bones revealed them to average 1,002 (range 816-1,134) years old (Heupink et al. 2012).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by van Tets in 1973

• Repository: Australian National Wildlife Collection

Primary reference: A. J. D. Tennyson and R. P. Scofield. 2013. Holocene fossil bird remains from subantarctic Macquarie Island. Proceeding of the 8th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution 239-251 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 194613: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.06.2018

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