Government Quarry (Robert Murphy collection): Middle Pleistocene - Holocene, Bermuda
collected by Robert Murphy 1951
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Theropoda
- Procellariidae
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Puffinus parvus
Shufeldt 1916
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Pterodroma cahow
(Nichols and Mowbray 1916)
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Reptilia
- Theropoda
- Ardeidae
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Nyctanassa carcinocatactes
Olson and Wingate 2006
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Geography
| Country: | Bermuda |
| Coordinates: | 32.3° North, 64.7° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 32.3° North, 64.7° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Middle Pleistocene - Holocene |
| Age range of interval: | 0.77400 - 0.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: There is no estimate of the age of the material beyond the assumption of Quaternary | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "siliciclastic" |
| Environment: | cave |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | AMNH | ||
| Collectors: | Robert Murphy | Collection dates: | 1951 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 194467 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2018-06-19 23:16:11 | Last modified: | 2018-06-19 23:17:18 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-06-19 23:16:11 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 66031. | S. L. Olson and D. B. Wingate. 2006. A new species of night-heron (Ardeidae: Nyctanassa) from Quaternary deposits on Bermuda. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 119:326-337 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |