Puffinus Brisson, 1760

Nascimento, Rafael S. & Silveira, Luís Fábio, 2024, Fossil and subfossil birds of Brazil, Zoologia (e 23079) 41, pp. 1-234 : 133-134

Puffinus Brisson

433. Puffinus sp. 1

Late Holocene – SC

Puffinus sp. [in part] – Teixeira and Rosa 2001: C00003. Puffinus sp. [in part] – Teixeira 2006: 21.

Puffinus sp. [in part] – Tamiozzo et al. 2008: 111–112.

Puffinus sp. [in part] – Campos 2015: 61.

Teixeira and Rosa (2001) reported 31 bones belonging to at least 14 individuals from the Rincão (SC-IÇ-06) site in Içara, Santa Catarina. The material represents at least 17 individuals according to Teixeira (2006) and is deposited in the IAP/Unisinos collection.

Tamiozzo et al. (2008) reported further material from the site, which probably belongs to the same taxon as the material reported by Teixeira (2006). It is represented by a cranium, a vertebra, a coracoid, six humeri, a radius, three metacarpi, four carpi, four femora, two tibiotarsi, a fibula, three tarsometatarsi, four phalanges, and a synsacrum, although, on their table 1, they mentioned a total of 28 elements.

434. Puffinus sp. 2

Middle Holocene – SC

Puffinus sp. – Mendes and Rodrigues 2024: 8, fig. 4A.

Mendes and Rodrigues (2024) associated with this genus four bones of at least one individual from the Congonhas I (SC-LS-30) sambaqui in Tubarão, Santa Catarina. The proximal and middle portions of a right humerus were depicted .

435. Puffinus puffinus (Brünnich)

Holocene – RJ

Procellariiformes [?; in part] – Kneip et al. 1988: 48. Procellariformes [sic] [in part] – Kneip et al. 1989a: 126. Puffinus puffinus – Kneip et al. 1989b: 662.

“Procellariid remains” [?; in part?] – Sick 1993: 114.

Puffinus puffinus – Kneip et al. 1994: 49.

“Restos de procelarídeos” [?; in part?] – Sick 1997: 178.

Kneip et al. (1989b, 1994) reported three bones of at least one individual from layer II (4,160±180 years BP) of Sambaqui da Beirada in Saquarema, Rio de Janeiro.

Ciconiiformes Bonaparte Ciconiidae Sundevall

436. Ciconiidae indet. 1

Quaternary – BA

Ciconiidae – Cartelle and Santos 1985: 140.

Cartelle and Santos (1985) reported a complete ciconiid skeleton among the numerous avian remains of quaternary age from Gruta dos Brejões in Morro do Chapéu, Bahia.

437. Ciconiidae indet. 2

Late Holocene – SE

Ciconidae [sic] – Queiroz and Chaix 1999: 55, fig. 35.

Queiroz and Chaix (1999) reported ciconiid bones associated with human remains from burial 147 of the Justino site in Canindé de São Francisco , Sergipe. The material consists of two ulnae and two tibiotarsi, placed in the front of the human thorax, and is deposited in the MAX collection .

438. Ciconiidae indet. 3

Late Holocene – MS

Ciconidae [sic] – Schmitz et al. 2009: 342.

Schmitz et al. (2009) reported a ciconiid bone from level 2 of the MS-MA-16A site in Corumbá, Mato Grosso do Sul.

439. Ciconiidae indet. 4

Late Holocene – RS

Ciconiiformes – Milheira et al. 2019: 45.

Milheira et al. (2019) reported ciconiiform remains among the material from the sites PSG-02 and PSG-07 of the Pontal da Barra cerrito complex in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul .