Mangaia Island (Holocene of Cook Islands)

Where: Cook Islands (21.9° S, 157.9° W: paleocoordinates 21.9° S, 157.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; reef rocks

• emerged Porites microatolls (0.5-3.5 m in diameter); branching Acropora, loose coral rubble, cemented bioclastics with ramose corals in the cores

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: N. Yonekura, T. Ishii, Y. Saito, Y. Maeda, Y. Matsushima, E. Matsumoto, and H. Kayanne. 1988. Holocene fringing reefs and sea-level change in Mangaia Island, southern Cook Islands. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 68:177-188 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 97455: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.07.2010, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Aves
 Passeriformes - Acrocephalidae
Acrocephalus kerearako
Acrocephalus kerearako Holyoak 1974 Cook Islands reed-warbler
/kaoko
 Coraciiformes - Alcedinidae
"Halcyon tuta" = Todiramphus tutus
"Halcyon tuta" = Todiramphus tutus Gmelin 1788 chattering kingfisher
/mangaia
 Columbiformes - Columbidae
Ptilinopus rarotongensis, Ducula aurorae, Ducula galeata, "Gallicolumba erythroptera" = Alopecoenas erythropterus, Gallicolumba sp.
Ptilinopus rarotongensis Hartlaub and Finsch 1871 Cook Islands fruit-dove
Ducula aurorae Peale 1848 Polynesian imperial-pigeon
Ducula galeata Bonaparte 1855 Marquesas imperial-pigeon
"Gallicolumba erythroptera" = Alopecoenas erythropterus Gmelin 1789 Polynesian ground-dove
Gallicolumba sp. Heck 1849 dove
 Psittaciformes - Psittaculidae
Vini cf. kuhlii
Vini cf. kuhlii Vigors 1824 Kuhl's lorikeet
 Gruiformes - Rallidae
"Porzana tabuensis" = Zapornia tabuensis, Gallirallus ripleyi, Porzana rua
"Porzana tabuensis" = Zapornia tabuensis Gmelin 1789 spotless crake
Gallirallus ripleyi Steadman 1987 Mangaia rail
Porzana rua Steadman 1987 Mangaia crake
Anthozoa
 Helioporacea -
Heliopora sp.
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Platygyra sp.
Platygyra sp. Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp.
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora sp.
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral