Isthmus at base of North Head: Holocene, Australia
collected by van Tets 1973

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Spheniscidae
Aptenodytes patagonicus Miller 1778
46 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Macquarie Island
Coordinates: 54.5° South, 158.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:54.5° South, 158.9° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
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
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Recently at least 20 King Penguin bones were collected by Oosthuizen and Arthur from the Landing Beach on the Isthmus for DNA analysis; radiocarbon dating of seven of these
bones revealed them to average 1,002 (range 816-1,134) years old (Heupink et al. 2012).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "siliciclastic"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:van Tets Collection dates:1973
Collection method comments: Repository: Australian National Wildlife Collection
Metadata
Database number:194613
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2018-06-23 10:42:37 Last modified:2018-06-23 10:42:37
Access level:the public Released:2018-06-23 10:42:37
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
66121. A. J. D. Tennyson and R. P. Scofield. 2013. Holocene fossil bird remains from subantarctic Macquarie Island. Proceeding of the 8th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution 239-251 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]