Texas Caves (Pleistocene of Australia)
Where: Queensland, Australia (28.8° S, 151.2° E: paleocoordinates 28.8° S, 151.2° E)
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; breccia and claystone
• "bone breccia"
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. Archer. 1978. Quaternary vertebrate faunas from the Texas Caves of southeastern Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 19 1:61-109 [M. Uhen/E. Hansen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 183095: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Erik Hansen on 30.11.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Mammalia | |
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Conilurus albipes rabbit rat | |
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Isoodon sp. Desmarest 1817 short-nosed bandicoot
Perameles nasuta Geoffroy 1804 long-nosed bandicoot | |
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Phascogale tapoatafa Meyer 1793 brush-tailed phascogale
Dasyurus viverrinus Shaw 1800 eastern quoll | |
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Thylacinus cynocephalus Harris 1808 thylacine | |
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Pseudocheirus peregrinus Boddaert 1785 common ringtail possum | |
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Aepyprymnus rufescens Gray 1837 rufous rat-kangaroo | |
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Sthenurus occidentalis short-faced kangaroo
Sthenurus oreas short-faced kangaroo | |
"Sthenurus atlas" = Macropus atlas, "Macropus titan" = Macropus (Macropus) giganteus, "Macropus altus" = Macropus (Osphranter) robustus altus, Macropus thor, Macropus dorsalis, "Petrogale sp." = Macropus (Petrogale), Protemnodon roechus, Protemnodon brehus, Thylogale sp.
"Sthenurus atlas" = Macropus atlas Owen 1838 kangaroo
"Macropus titan" = Macropus (Macropus) giganteus Shaw 1790 eastern grey kangaroo
"Macropus altus" = Macropus (Osphranter) robustus altus Owen 1874 eastern wallaroo
Macropus thor De Vis 1895 wallaby
Macropus dorsalis Gray 1837 black-striped wallaby
"Petrogale sp." = Macropus (Petrogale) Gray 1837 rock wallaby
Protemnodon roechus kangaroo
Protemnodon brehus Owen 1874 kangaroo
Thylogale sp. Gray 1837 pademelon | |