Victoria Fossil Cave (Pleistocene of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (37.0° S, 140.8° E: paleocoordinates 37.7° S, 140.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: cave; poorly lithified claystone

• The Lower Ossuaries area is low and flat with a floor of clayey sediment littered with bone material.

Size class: macrofossils

• A few isolated remains of a juvenile individual were observed at around 24 and 29

•meters.

Primary reference: E. H. Reed. 2006. In Situ Taphonomic Investigation of Pleistocene Large Mammal Bone Deposits from The Ossuaries, Victoria Fossil Cave, Naracoorte, South Australia. Helictite 39(1):5-15 [D. Perez/D. Perez/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 181305: authorized by Daniel Perez, entered by Daniel Perez on 04.09.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Monotremata - Tachyglossidae
Megalibgwilia ramsayi Owen 1884 echidna
 Diprotodontia - Diprotodontidae
Zygomaturus trilobus Macleay 1857 diprotodont marsupial
 Diprotodontia - Thylacoleonidae
Thylacoleo carnifex Owen 1859 diprotodont marsupial
 Diprotodontia -
Simosthenurus browneorum short-faced kangaroo
Simosthenurus gilli short-faced kangaroo
Simosthenurus occidentalis Glauert 1910 short-faced kangaroo
Simosthenurus maddocki Wells and Murray 1979 short-faced kangaroo
Sthenurus andersoni Marcus 1962 short-faced kangaroo
 Dasyuromorphia - Thylacinidae
Thylacinus cynocephalus Harris 1808 thylacine