Mandu Mandu Creek rockshelter (Holocene of Australia)
Where: Western Australia, Australia (22.1° S, 113.9° E: paleocoordinates 22.1° S, 113.9° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• Unit 1
Environment/lithology: cave; unlithified, fine-grained, medium, brown, gray sandstone
• lenses of dark greyish brown (10YR 4/2) fine to medium sands
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: anthropogenic
Primary reference: K. Morse. 1988. Mandu Mandu Creek Rockshelter: Pleistocene Human Coastal Occupation of North West Cape, Western Australia. Archaeology in Oceania 23(3):81-88 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis
PaleoDB collection 191983: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 26.02.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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unclassified | |
Actinopteri | |
Scarus sp. Gronovius 1763 | |
Reptilia | |
? Chelonia mydas Linnaeus 1758 green turtle | |
Mammalia | |
"? Isodon auratus" = Isoodon
"? Isodon auratus" = Isoodon short-nosed bandicoot | |
Bettongia lesueur Quoy and Gaimard 1824 bettong | |
Macropodidae indet., Macropus sp., "Macropus robustus" = Macropus (Osphranter) robustus, "Petrogale sp." = Macropus (Petrogale)
Macropodidae indet. Gray 1821 kangaroo
Macropus sp. Shaw 1790 kangaroo
"Macropus robustus" = Macropus (Osphranter) robustus Gould 1841 eastern wallaroo
"Petrogale sp." = Macropus (Petrogale) Gray 1837 rock wallaby | |
Pseudomys nanus Australian mouse | |
Muridae indet. Illiger 1811 mouse
Rattus tunneyi rat | |
Capra hircus Linnaeus 1758 domestic goat | |
Eptesicus punilus house bat | |
Bivalvia | |
? Tridacna maxima Roeding 1798 cockle | |
Pinctada sp. RÅ¡ding 1798 pearl oyster | |
Polyplacophora | |
Acanthopleura gemmata fuzzy chiton | |
Gastropoda | |
Dicathais orbita snail | |
Terebralia palustris Linnaeus 1767 horn snail | |
Melo amphora volute | |
Turbo (Marmarostoma) sp. Swainson 1829 snail | |
Tectus pyramis Born 1778 top snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
Nautilus sp. Linnaeus 1758 nautiloid | |
Malacostraca | |
Brachyura indet. Latreille 1802 crab |