Skull Cave (AU-8) (Holocene of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (34.3° S, 115.0° E: paleocoordinates 34.3° S, 115.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• No figure was offered to display the distribution of the layers. The vertebrate remains were labelled by excavation level not sedimentary unit. Therefore, except for the depth of the spits involved, there is no stratigraphic information for the specimens.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: bone collector

Reposited in the WAM

Primary reference: R. F. Baird. 1991. Holocene avian assemblage from Skull Cave (AU-8), south-western Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 15:267-286 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 194981: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.07.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Psittaciformes - Psittaculidae
"Platycercus icterotus" = Platycercus icterotis Temminck and Kuhl 1820 western rosella
Glossopsitta porphyrocephala Dietrichsen 1837 purple-crowned lorikeet
 Columbiformes - Columbidae
Phaps elegans Temminck 1809 brush bronzewing
 Caprimulgiformes - Aegothelidae
Aegotheles cristatus Shaw 1790 Australian owlet-nightjar
 Passeriformes - Hirundinidae
Hirundinidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 swallow
 Passeriformes - Atrichornithidae
Atrichornis clamosus Gould 1844 noisy scrub-bird
 Passeriformes - Maluridae
Malurus sp. Vieillot 1816 fairywren
 Passeriformes - Artamidae
Artamus cyanopterus Latham 1801 dusky woodswallow
 Passeriformes - Dasyornithidae
Dasyornis longirostris Gould 1841 western bristlebird
 Galliformes - Phasianidae
Coturnix sp. Bonnaterre 1791 quail