Stockyard Site: Holocene, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
|
Gastropoda
- Lepetellida
- Haliotidae
|
||||||||||
|
Haliotis ruber
Leach 1814
|
||||||||||
|
Gastropoda
- Turbinidae
|
||||||||||
|
Subninella undulata
Lightfoot 1786
|
||||||||||
|
Reptilia
- Spheniscidae
|
||||||||||
|
Eudyptula novaehollandiae
(Shaw 1826)
|
Cole et al. 2018 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| recombined as Eudyptula minor novaehollandiae | ||||||||||
| ANWC BS2667 (Tasidyptes hunteri in van Tets & O'Connor) | ||||||||||
|
Tasidyptes hunteri n. gen., n. sp.
van Tets and O'Connor 1983
|
3 specimens | |||||||||
| synonym of Eudyptes pachyrhynchus | ||||||||||
| ANWC BS2668, 2669, 2670 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Tasmania | County: | Hunter Island |
| Coordinates: | 40.5° South, 144.8° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 40.5° South, 144.8° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
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 | ||
| Age estimate: | 760 ± 70 YBP (14C) |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
| Geology comments: Material found in an aboriginal midden | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,anthropogenic |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Collection method comments: ANWC, Australian National Wildlife Collection | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 138319 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-01-12 13:57:44 | Last modified: | 2013-01-17 14:24:16 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-01-12 13:57:44 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 44331. | G. F. van Tets and S. O'Connor. 1983. The Hunter Island Penguin, and extinct new genus and species form a Tasmanian midden. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston 81:1-13 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 66143 | T. L. Cole, J. M. Waters, L. D. Shepherd, N. J. Rawlence, L. Joseph and J. R. Wood. 2018. Ancient DNA reveals that the 'extinct' Hunter Island penguin (Tasidyptes hunteri) is not a distinct taxon. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 182:459-464 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] | |
| 44251 | T. Park and E. M. G. Fitzgerald. 2012. A review of Australian fossil penguins (Aves: Sphenisciformes). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 69:309-225 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |