West Mouth, Niah Cave (45 inches) (Pleistocene of Malaysia)

Where: Malaysia (3.8° N, 113.8° E: paleocoordinates 3.8° N, 113.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• 48 inch depth dated c. 19 ka BP by radiocarbon

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. M. Stimpson. 2009. Raptor and owl bone from Niah Caves, Sarawak: identifications and morphological variation in the humerus and tarsometatarsus of selected raptors. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 19:476-490 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 195001: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.07.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Accipitriformes - Accipitridae
"Machieramphus alcinus" = Macheiramphus alcinus, Spizaetus sp.
"Machieramphus alcinus" = Macheiramphus alcinus Bonaparte 1850 bat hawk
Spizaetus sp. Vieillot 1816 hawk-eagle