Where: Marshall Islands (11.2° N, 169.8° E: paleocoordinates 11.2° N, 169.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: anthropogenic
Primary reference: M. I. Weisler. 2001. Life on the edge: prehistoric settlement and economy on Utrōk Atoll, northern Marshall Islands. Archaeology in Oceania 36:109-133 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis
PaleoDB collection 194997: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.07.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
Procellariidae indet. Vigors 1825 petrel
Puffinus sp. Brisson 1760 shearwater | |
Sterninae indet. Bonaparte 1838 tern | |
Mammalia | |
Sus scrofa Linnaeus 1758 wild boar | |
Rattus exulans Peale 1848 rat | |
Actinopteri | |
Scaridae indet., Hipposcarus longiceps, Scarinae indet., Cetoscarus bicolor, Scarus spp., Scarus gibbus
Scarinae indet. Rafinesque 1810
Scarus spp. Gronovius 1763 | |
Labridae indet. Cuvier 1816
cf. Thalassoma sp. Swainson 1839 | |
Serranidae indet. Swainson 1839 perch-like fish | |
Naso sp. Lacépède 1802 | |
Lutjanidae indet. Gill 1861 | |
Holocentridae indet. Richardson 1846 |