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 | |
"Platycercus icterotus" = Platycercus icterotis, Glossopsitta porphyrocephala
"Platycercus icterotus" = Platycercus icterotis Temminck and Kuhl 1820 western rosella
Glossopsitta porphyrocephala Dietrichsen 1837 purple-crowned lorikeet | |
Phaps elegans Temminck 1809 brush bronzewing | |
Aegotheles cristatus Shaw 1790 Australian owlet-nightjar | |
Hirundinidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 swallow | |
Atrichornis clamosus Gould 1844 noisy scrub-bird | |
Malurus sp. Vieillot 1816 fairywren | |
Artamus cyanopterus Latham 1801 dusky woodswallow | |
Dasyornis longirostris Gould 1841 western bristlebird | |
Coturnix sp. Bonnaterre 1791 quail |