Weekes Cave (N-15), Nullarbor Plain (Holocene of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (31.5° S, 129.9° E: paleocoordinates 31.5° S, 129.9° E)

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• Material collected from surface of cave floor. Surface material in other Nullarbor Caves range in age from only a few hundred to 4650 YBP (Baird, 1990).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Cave Exploration Group of South Australia

Collection methods: surface (float)

• Repository: South Australian Museum

Primary reference: G. F. van Tets. 1974. Fossil birds (Aves) from Weekes Cave, Nullarbor Plain, South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 98:229-230 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 194979: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.07.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
  -
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird
SAM P18066, 18075, 31424
 Falconiformes - Falconidae
Falco cenchroides Vigors and Horsfield 1827 Australian kestrel
SAM P18062
 Strigiformes - Tytonidae
Tyto novaehollandiae Stephens 1826 Australian masked-owl
SAM P26202
 Passeriformes -
Passeriformes indet. Linnaeus 1758 perching bird
SAM P18068
 Passeriformes - Maluridae
Amytornis textilis Dumont 1824 western grasswren
SAM P18063, 18064, 18074, 18076
 Passeriformes - Artamidae
Artamus superciliosus Gould 1837 white-browed woodswallow
SAM P18071-18073
 Passeriformes - Estrildidae
Estrildidae indet. Illiger 1811 perching bird
SAM P18070
 Passeriformes - Meliphagidae
"cf. Lichenostomus virescens" = Gavicalis virescens
"cf. Lichenostomus virescens" = Gavicalis virescens Vieillot 1817 singing honeyeater
SAM P18069
 Passeriformes - Cinclosomatidae
Cinclosoma alisteri Mathews 1910 Nullarbor quail-thrush
SAM P18072, 18073, 18077
 Pelecaniformes - Threskiornithidae
Platalea sp. Linnaeus 1758 spoonbills
SAM P17927
 Accipitriformes - Accipitridae
Circus sp. Lacépède 1799 harrier
SAM P18060, 18061
 Charadriiformes -
Charadriiformes indet. Huxley 1867 shorebird
SAM P31422
 Charadriiformes - Turnicidae
Turnix cf. velox Gould 1841 little buttonquail
SAM P18063-18067