Also known as Fossil Cave

Where: South Australia, Australia (37.7° S, 140.5° E: paleocoordinates 37.7° S, 140.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

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

• Karst production in this area, according to Marker, "has been promoted by late Quaternary marine fluctuations...". The cave shows no marine influence. The last marine incursion into the area at 124,000 Y.B.P., therefore, may be taken as a maximum age for the opening of the cave. The cavern probably opened in the latter half of the last glacial, based on the large proportion of extant species in the fossil avifauna. The maximum age of accumulation is anytime before 15,000 Y.B.P., which is the time of last occurrence of most mammalian megafauna.

Environment/lithology: sinkhole; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Brian Brawley; R. Wells in 1960s; 1979

• South Australian Museum (SAM)

Primary reference: R. F. Baird. 1985. Avian fossils from Quaternary deposits in 'Green Waterhole Cave', south-eastern South Australia . Records of the Australian Museum 37:353-370 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 136157: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Albert Garcia Selles on 20.11.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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