Niah Great Cave (Pleistocene to of Malaysia)
Where: Malaysia (3.9° N, 113.7° E)
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene to Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. A. Hooijer. 1962. Prehistoric bone: The gibbons and monkeys of Niah Great Cave. The Sarawak Museum Journal 10:428-449 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 192522: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 11.04.2018, edited by Evangelos Vlachos
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Taxonomic list
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| Reptilia | |
Carettochelys niahensis n. sp.
Carettochelys niahensis n. sp. White et al. 2023 pig-nose turtle SM cb 2.9.a, upper third of an intact, adult skull, collected on 11 December 1989 by a team from UNSW.
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| Mammalia | |
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Trachypithecus cristatus Raffles 1821 silvery lutung
Presbytis sp. Eschscholtz 1821 monkey
Macaca fascicularis Raffles 1822 crab eating macaque
Macaca nemestrina Linnaeus 1766 southern pig-tailed macaque | |
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Hylobates moloch Audebert 1797 silvery Javan gibbon | |