Niah Great Cave: Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene, Malaysia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Hylobatidae
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Hylobates moloch
(Audebert 1797)
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
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Macaca fascicularis
(Raffles 1822)
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Macaca nemestrina
(Linnaeus 1766)
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Presbytis sp.
Eschscholtz 1821
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Trachypithecus cristatus
(Raffles 1821)
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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Carettochelys niahensis n. sp.
White et al. 2023
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White et al. 2023 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| SM cb 2.9.a, upper third of an intact, adult skull, collected on 11 December 1989 by a team from UNSW. | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Malaysia |
| Coordinates: | 3.9° North, 113.7° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 3.9° North, 113.7° East |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene |
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | cave |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 192522 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen, E. Vlachos | Enterer: | M. Uhen, E. Vlachos |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2018-04-11 18:26:12 | Last modified: | 2018-04-11 18:33:15 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-04-11 18:26:12 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 40604. | D. A. Hooijer. 1962. Prehistoric bone: The gibbons and monkeys of Niah Great Cave. The Sarawak Museum Journal 10:428-449 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 41250 | T. Harrison, J. Krigbaum, and J. Manser. 2006. Primate Biogeography and Ecology on the Sunda Shelf Islands: A Paleontological and Zooarchaeological Perspective. In S. M. Lehman, J. G. Fleagle (eds.), Primate Biogeography 331-372 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Uhen] | |
| 85755 | A. W. White, M. Archer, S. J. Hand, H. Godthelp, and A. K. Gillespie. 2023. A new broad-snouted fossil carettochelyid turtle from a previously unknown Caenozoic deposit in Sarawak, Malaysia. Alcheringa 1-10 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |