Also known as Victoria Cave, 5U1; Naracoorte Caves World Heritage Area
Where: South Australia, Australia (37.0° S, 140.8° E: paleocoordinates 37.0° S, 140.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Pleistocene to Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.0 Ma)
• age is not given but may not be older than that of the main chamber deposit
Environment/lithology: cave; unlithified breccia
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by CEGSA, SAM, FU in 1970s, 1997-1998
• The Butch and Lake Chamber was discovered in the early 1970s and initial collecting took place back then. Additional collecting took place in 1997/98.
•The collected material is housed in the Flinders University, Adelaide, vertebrate paleontology collection.
Primary reference: E. H. Reed and S. J. Bourne. 2000. Pleistocene fossil vertebrate sites of the South East region of South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 124(2):61-90 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/T. Liebrecht]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 136074: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Albert Garcia Selles on 16.11.2012, edited by Torsten Liebrecht
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Thylacoleo carnifex Owen 1859 diprotodont marsupial | |
Phascolarctos cinereus Goldfuss 1817 koala | |
Macropus cf. fuliginosus Desmarest 1817 western grey kangaroo
Macropus cf. rufogriseus Desmarest 1817 kangaroo | |
Simosthenurus cf. gilli short-faced kangaroo | |
Thylacinus cynocephalus Harris 1808 thylacine | |
Reptilia | |
Varanus sp. Merrem 1820 monitor lizard |