Naracoorte Cave World Heritage Area: Blanch Cave 3rd Chamber (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 183263: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 08.12.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Peramelemorphia - Peramelidae
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 sp. 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
Dasyurus viverrinus Shaw 1800 eastern quoll
Dasyurus maculatus Kerr 1792 tiger quoll
Phascogale tapoatafa Meyer 1793 brush-tailed phascogale
Antechinus flavipes Waterhouse 1838 Yellow-footed antechinus
Antechinus agilis Dickman et al. 1998 Agile antechinus
cf.
 Diprotodontia - Pseudocheiridae
Pseudocheirus peregrinus Boddaert 1785 common ringtail possum
 Diprotodontia - Potoroidae
Bettongia penicillata Gray 1837 brush-tailed bettong
Bettongia lesueur Quoy and Gaimard 1824 bettong
cf.
Potorous tridactylus Kerr 1792 long-nosed potoroo
Potorous platyops Gould 1844 potoroo
 Diprotodontia - Acrobatidae
Acrobates pygmaeus Shaw 1794 feathertail glider
 Diprotodontia - Petauridae
Petaurus breviceps Waterhouse 1839 sugar glider
Petaurus norfolcensis Kerr 1792 squirrel glider
 Diprotodontia - Burramyidae
Cercartetus nanus Desmarest 1818 eastern pygmy possum
Cercartetus lepidus Thomas 1888 Tasmanian pygmy possum
 Diprotodontia - Phalangeridae
Trichosurus vulpecula Kerr 1792 common brushtail possum
 Rodentia - Muridae
 Rodentia -
Pseudomys apodemoides Australian mouse
Pseudomys auritus Australian mouse
Pseudomys australis Australian mouse
Pseudomys fumeus Australian mouse
Pseudomys gouldii Australian mouse
Pseudomys shortridgei Australian mouse
Conilurus albipes rabbit rat