Nettle Cave: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia
Conilurus albipes
Pseudomys oralis
Pseudomys gracilicaudatus
Pseudomys australis
Pseudomys novaehollandiae
Pseudomys fumeus
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Rattus fuscipes
Rattus rattus (Linnaeus 1758)
Mus musculus Linnaeus 1758
Mastacomys fuscus
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Oryctolagus cuniculus (Linnaeus 1758)
Mammalia - Diprotodontia - Pseudocheiridae
Pseudocheirus peregrinus (Boddaert 1785)
Petauroides volans Kerr 1792
Mammalia - Diprotodontia - Potoroidae
Potorous tridactylus (Kerr 1792)
Bettongia sp. Gray 1837
Mammalia - Diprotodontia - Acrobatidae
Acrobates pygmaeus (Shaw 1794)
Mammalia - Diprotodontia - Petauridae
Petaurus breviceps (Waterhouse 1839)
Mammalia - Diprotodontia - Burramyidae
Cercartetus nanus (Desmarest 1818)
Cercartetus lepidus Thomas 1888
Burramys parvus Broom 1896
Mammalia - Diprotodontia - Macropodidae
Thylogale thetis Lesson 1828
Mammalia - Peramelemorphia - Peramelidae
Isoodon obesulus Shaw 1797
Perameles nasuta Geoffroy 1804
Mammalia - Dasyuromorphia - Dasyuridae
Phascogale tapoatafa (Meyer 1793)
Antechinus stuartii Macleay 1841
Antechinus flavipes Waterhouse 1838
Antechinus swainsonii (Waterhouse 1840)
Sminthopsis murina Waterhouse 1837
Dasyurus viverrinus (Shaw 1800)
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:New South Wales
Coordinates: 33.8° South, 150.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.8° South, 150.0° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "carbonate"
Secondary lithology:brown sandy claystone
Lithology description: The gross stratigraphy of the bone-rich sediment suggests these sediments had formed as a result of a series of deposits of air-fall debris. The dark organic layer indicates a stable surface. The sediment changed below this layer to a brown, gritty, sandy clay that contained an increased amount of charcoal and soil particles, but a reduced amount of bone. Two discrete lenses of charcoal were evident. Between these lenses was a white, calcareous, cemented layer which may represent a former water saturation level.
Environment:cave
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Nettle Cave of the Jenolan Caves Reserve on the Gread Dividing Ridge
Database number:181897
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:J. Joo
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-10-07 11:18:07 Last modified:2016-10-07 11:18:07
Access level:the public Released:2016-10-07 11:18:07
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

60499. D. A. Morris, M. L. Augee, D. Gillieson and J. Head. 1997. Analysis of a late Quaternary deposit and small mammal fauna from Nettle Cave, Jenolan, New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 117:135-161 [M. Uhen/J. Joo/M. Uhen]