Galería de los Pájaros, Cueva del Viento, Tenerife (Pleistocene to of Spain)

Where: Spain (28.3° N, 16.7° W: paleocoordinates 28.4° N, 16.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene to Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Departamento de Zoologia, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife

Primary reference: J. C. Rando, M. López, and B. Seguí. 1999. A new species of extinct flightless passerine (Emberizidae: Emberiza) from the Canary Islands. The Condor 101:1-13 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194298: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.06.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Accipitriformes - Accipitridae
Accipiter nisus Linnaeus 1758 Eurasian sparrowhawk
Buteo buteo Linnaeus 1758 common buzzard
 Galliformes - Phasianidae
Coturnix gomerae Jaume et al. 1993 Canary Islands quail
 Otidiformes - Otididae
Chlamydotis undulata von Jacquin 1784 Houbara bustard
 Passeriformes - Turdidae
Turdus sp. Linnaeus 1758 true thrush
 Passeriformes - Corvidae
Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax Linnaeus 1758 red-billed chough
 Passeriformes - Emberizidae
Emberiza alcoveri n. sp. Rando et al. 1999 old world bunting
 Columbiformes - Columbidae
Columba sp. Linnaeus 1758 dove