PBDB Collection

Naracoorte Cave World Heritage Area: Wet Cave (Pleistocene to of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (37.0° S, 141.0° E: paleocoordinates 37.0° S, 141.0° E)

When: Middle Pleistocene to Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: cave; lime mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. C. Macken and E. H. Reed. 2013. Late Quaternary Small Mammal Faunas of the Naracoorte Caves World Heritage Area. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 137(1):53-67 [M. Uhen/N. Jones/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182920: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Naomi Jones on 28.11.2016, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
Peramelemorphia - Peramelidae	Perameles bougainville, Perameles gunnii, Isoodon obesulus Perameles bougainville Quoy and Gaimard 1824 long-nosed bandicoot Perameles gunnii Gray 1838 eastern barred bandicoot Isoodon obesulus Shaw 1797 short-nosed bandicoot
Dasyuromorphia - Dasyuridae	Dasyuridae indet., Sminthopsis sp., Sminthopsis crassicaudata, Sminthopsis murina, Ningaui yvonneae, Dasycercus indet., Dasyurus viverrinus, Phascogale tapoatafa, Phascogale calura, Antechinus flavipes, Antechinus agilis Dasyuridae indet. Goldfuss 1820 marsupial sp. 1 Sminthopsis sp. Thomas 1887 dunnart sp. 1 Sminthopsis crassicaudata Gould 1844 fat-tailed dunnart Sminthopsis murina Waterhouse 1837 Slender-tailed dunnart Ningaui yvonneae ningaui Dasycercus indet. Peters 1875 mulgara Dasyurus viverrinus Shaw 1800 eastern quoll Phascogale tapoatafa Meyer 1793 brush-tailed phascogale Phascogale calura Gould 1844 Red-tailed phascogale Antechinus flavipes Waterhouse 1838 Yellow-footed antechinus Antechinus agilis Dickman et al. 1998 Agile antechinus
Diprotodontia - Pseudocheiridae	Pseudocheirus peregrinus Pseudocheirus peregrinus Boddaert 1785 common ringtail possum
Diprotodontia - Potoroidae	Bettongia gaimardi, Bettongia lesueur, Potorous tridactylus, Potorous platyops Bettongia gaimardi bettong cf. Bettongia lesueur Quoy and Gaimard 1824 bettong cf. Potorous tridactylus Kerr 1792 long-nosed potoroo Potorous platyops Gould 1844 potoroo
Diprotodontia - Acrobatidae	Acrobates pygmaeus Acrobates pygmaeus Shaw 1794 feathertail glider
Diprotodontia - Petauridae	Petaurus breviceps, Petaurus norfolcensis Petaurus breviceps Waterhouse 1839 sugar glider Petaurus norfolcensis Kerr 1792 squirrel glider
Diprotodontia - Burramyidae	Cercartetus nanus, Cercartetus lepidus Cercartetus nanus Desmarest 1818 eastern pygmy possum Cercartetus lepidus Thomas 1888 Tasmanian pygmy possum
Diprotodontia - Phalangeridae	Trichosurus vulpecula Trichosurus vulpecula Kerr 1792 common brushtail possum
Rodentia - Muridae	Hydromys chrysogaster, Rattus fuscipes, Rattus lutreolus, Rattus tunneyi, Mastacomys fuscus Hydromys chrysogaster mouse Rattus fuscipes rat Rattus lutreolus rat Rattus tunneyi rat Mastacomys fuscus broad-toothed rat
Rodentia -	Pseudomys apodemoides, Pseudomys auritus, Pseudomys australis, Pseudomys fumeus, Pseudomys gouldii, Pseudomys movaehollandiae, Pseudomys shortridgei, Conilurus albipes Pseudomys apodemoides Australian mouse Pseudomys auritus Australian mouse Pseudomys australis Australian mouse Pseudomys fumeus Australian mouse Pseudomys gouldii Australian mouse Pseudomys movaehollandiae Australian mouse Pseudomys shortridgei Australian mouse Conilurus albipes rabbit rat