Kirkdale Cave (Pleistocene of the United Kingdom)
Where: England, United Kingdom (54.3° N, 1.0° W: paleocoordinates 54.3° N, 1.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. J. Stuart. 1986. Pleistocene occurrence of hippopotamus in Britain. Quartaerpalaeontologie 6:209-218 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 93828: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 04.02.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• Boylan (1981) lists the following as erroneous records from Kirkland Cave: Homo sapiens, Ursus spelaeus, Odobenus rosmarus, Mammuthus primigenius, Rangifer tarandus, Ovibos moschatus, Ovis or Capra sp., Mus musculus
Show authors, comments, and common names
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"Dicerorhinus hemitoechus" = Stephanorhinus hemitoechus1
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Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus 1758 hippo | |
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"Elephas antiquus" = Palaeoloxodon antiquus1
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