Where: Tonga (21.4° S, 174.9° W: paleocoordinates 21.4° S, 174.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene to Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• Older than 2.7 ka (radiocarbon date from overlying layer) but younger than 60-78.8 ka (uranium-series date from underlying flowstone)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: cave; calcareous siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the FLMNH
Primary reference: D. W. Steadman. 1993. Biogeography of Tongan birds before and after human impact. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 90:818-822 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis
PaleoDB collection 194698: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.06.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
Nycticorax "n. sp." Forster 1817 night heron | |
Lalage maculosa Peale 1848 Polynesian triller | |
Zosteropidae indet. Bonaparte 1853 white-eye | |
Clytorhynchus vitiensis Hartlaub 1866 Fiji shrikebill
Myiagra sp. Vigors and Horsfield 1827 perching bird | |
Cettia sp. Bonaparte 1834 perching bird | |
Myzomela cardinalis, "Foulehaio carunculata" = Foulehaio carunculatus
Myzomela cardinalis Gmelin 1788 cardinal myzomela
"Foulehaio carunculata" = Foulehaio carunculatus Gmelin 1788 eastern wattled-honeyeater | |
Aplonis tabuensis Gmelin 1788 Polynesian starling | |
Turdus poliocephalus Latham 1801 island thrush | |
Eopsaltria sp. Swainson 1832 perching bird | |
Gallinula "n. sp." Brisson 1760 moorhen | |
"Halcyon chloris" = Todiramphus chloris
"Halcyon chloris" = Todiramphus chloris Boddaert 1783 collared kingfisher | |
Ptilinopus perousii, Ptilinopus porphyraceus, "Gallicolumba stairi" = Alopecoenas stairi, Didunculus placopedetes3, Ducula "n. sp.", Ducula david
Ptilinopus perousii Peale 1848 many-colored fruit-dove
Ptilinopus porphyraceus Temminck 1821 crimson-crowned fruit-dove
"Gallicolumba stairi" = Alopecoenas stairi Gray 1856 shy ground-dove
Ducula "n. sp." Hodgson 1836 imperial pigeon
Ducula david Balouet and Olson 1987 Steadman's imperial-pigeon | |
Vini australis Gmelin 1788 blue-crowned lorikeet | |
Megapodius "n. sp." Gaimard 1823 scrubfowl
Megapodius alimentum Steadman 1989 consumed scrubfowl |