Where: Macquarie Island, Australia (54.6° S, 158.9° E: paleocoordinates 54.5° S, 158.9° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• Recent radiocarbon dating of eight King Penguin bones from this location (including bones collected by McEvey and more recently by Oosthuizen and Arthur) revealed them to average 7,927 (range 6,834-8,429) years old (Heupink et al. 2012).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by R.P. Scofield in 1996
• Repository: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (NMNZ)
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 194607: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.06.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
"Catharacta antarctica" = Stercorarius antarcticus
"Catharacta antarctica" = Stercorarius antarcticus Lesson 1831 brown skua ssp. lonnbergi, as Catharacta skua lonnbergi
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Eudyptes schlegeli, "Eudyptes filholi" = Eudyptes chrysocome filholi
Eudyptes schlegeli Finsch 1876 royal penguin
"Eudyptes filholi" = Eudyptes chrysocome filholi Hutton 1879 southern rockhopper penguin | |
"Puffinus elegans" = Puffinus assimilis elegans, Halobaena caerulea, Pachyptila desolata, "Puffinus tenuirostris" = Ardenna tenuirostris, Pelecanoides urinatrix, Pterodroma lessonii, Macronectes giganteus
"Puffinus elegans" = Puffinus assimilis elegans Giglioli and Salvadori 1869 subantarctic shearwater
Halobaena caerulea Gmelin 1789 blue petrel
Pachyptila desolata Gmelin 1789 Antarctic prion
"Puffinus tenuirostris" = Ardenna tenuirostris Temminck 1823 short-tailed shearwater
Pelecanoides urinatrix Gmelin 1789 common diving-petrel
Pterodroma lessonii Garnot 1826 white-headed petrel
Macronectes giganteus Gmelin 1789 southern giant-petrel | |
Anas superciliosa Gmelin 1789 Pacific black duck | |
"Gallirallus macquariensis" = Gallirallus philippensis macquariensis
"Gallirallus macquariensis" = Gallirallus philippensis macquariensis Hutton 1879 Macquarie Island rail | |
Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae Sparrman 1787 red-fronted parakeet |