Cocklebiddy Cave (Pleistocene of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (32.0° S, 125.9° E: paleocoordinates 32.7° S, 125.6° E)

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: cave; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. L. Lundelius. 1963. Vertebrate remains from the Nullarbor caves, Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 46(3):75-80 [M. Uhen/A. Graur/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182919: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Alex Graur on 28.11.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Mammalia
 Rodentia - Muridae
Leporillus conditor Surt 1848 greater stick-nest rat
 Dasyuromorphia - Dasyuridae
Sminthopsis crassicaudata Gould 1844 fat-tailed dunnart
Dasycercus cristicauda Krefft 1866 mulgara
 Peramelemorphia - Thylacomyidae
Macrotis lagotis Reid 1837 bilby
 Peramelemorphia - Peramelidae
Perameles bougainrillei long-nosed bandicoot