Calonectris Quarry (Pleistocene of Bermuda)

Where: Bermuda (32.3° N, 64.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.3° N, 64.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• These were deposited at an elevation of 21.3 m above present sea-level in the maximum rise of interglacial MIS 11, about 400 kya ago (Hearty et al., 1999; Olson & Hearty, 2003)

Environment/lithology: foreshore; poorly lithified grainstone

• Beach deposit that formed in a horizontal unconformity between the Walsingham Formation and the overlying Lower Town Hill Formation

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: original phosphate, original carbon

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: F. V. Grady and S. L. Olson. 2006. Fossil bats from Quaternary deposits on Bermuda (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Journal of Mammalogy 87:148-152 [M. Uhen/O. Gjata/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94308: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Ornela Gjata on 16.02.2010, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Lasiurus borealis Muller 1776 hairy-tailed bat
Lasiurus seminolus Rhoads 1895 hairy-tailed bat
Aves
 Passeriformes - Passerellidae
Pipilo naufragus3 Olson and Wingate 2012 Bermuda towhee
 Procellariiformes - Diomedeidae
Phoebastria albatrus2 Pallas 1769 short-tailed albatross
 Procellariiformes - Procellariidae
Puffinus parvus1 Shufeldt 1916 Bermuda shearwater
Calonectris wingatei n. sp.1 Olson 2008 shearwater