Kalaupapa Penninsula: Holocene, Hawaii

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Ciconiiformes - Plataleidae
Apteribis sp. Olsen and Wetmore 1976
Reptilia - Procellariidae
Pterodroma hypoleuca (Slavin 1888)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Hawaii County:Molokai
Coordinates: 21.2° North, 157.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:21.2° North, 157.0° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Holocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Holocene
Age range of interval:0.01170 - 0.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: age unclear
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:cave
Geology comments: lava tube
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:110075
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-06-01 02:07:54 Last modified:2021-12-03 15:06:11
Access level:the public Released:2011-06-01 02:07:54
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

36280. S. L. Olson and H. F. James. 1982. Prodromus of the fossil avifauna of the Hawaiian Islands. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 365:1-59 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]