Also known as White Chamber, Victoria Cave, 5U1; Naracoorte Caves World Heritage Area
Where: South Australia, Australia (37.0° S, 140.8° E: paleocoordinates 37.0° S, 140.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Middle Pleistocene to Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.0 Ma)
• The absolute age is said to have been obtained from “several levels of speleothems” associated with the fossiliferous deposits by means of “Uranium series” (Reed & Bourne, 2000) without any further specification of the decay product.
Environment/lithology: cave; poorly lithified siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by CEGSA, SAM, FU
• material is housed in the Flinders University, Adelaide, vertebrate paleontology collection
Primary reference: E. H. Reed and S. J. Bourne. 2000. Pleistocene fossil vertebrate sites of the South East region of South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 124(2):61-90 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/T. Liebrecht]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 136075: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Albert Garcia Selles on 16.11.2012, edited by Torsten Liebrecht
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Tachyglossus aculeatus Shaw 1792 short-beaked echidna | |
Pseudomys apodemoides, Pseudomys australis, Pseudomys cf. gouldii, Pseudomys shortridgei, Pseudomys sp.
Pseudomys apodemoides Australian mouse
Pseudomys australis Australian mouse
Pseudomys cf. gouldii Australian mouse
Pseudomys shortridgei Australian mouse
Pseudomys sp. Gray 1832 Australian mouse | |
Thylacinus cynocephalus Harris 1808 thylacine | |
Wallabia bicolor, Macropus sp., Macropus rufogriseus, "Macropus giganteus" = Macropus (Macropus) giganteus
Wallabia bicolor Desmarest 1804 swamp wallaby
Macropus sp. Shaw 1790 kangaroo
Macropus rufogriseus Desmarest 1817 kangaroo
"Macropus giganteus" = Macropus (Macropus) giganteus Shaw 1790 eastern grey kangaroo | |
Bettongia penicillata Gray 1837 brush-tailed bettong | |
Cercartetus nanus Desmarest 1818 eastern pygmy possum
Cercartetus lepidus Thomas 1888 Tasmanian pygmy possum | |
Phascolarctos cinereus Goldfuss 1817 koala | |
Zygomaturus trilobus Macleay 1857 diprotodont marsupial | |
Vombatus ursinus Shaw 1800 common wombat | |
Thylacoleo carnifex Owen 1859 diprotodont marsupial | |
Simosthenurus brownei short-faced kangaroo
Simosthenurus gilli short-faced kangaroo
Simosthenurus newtonae short-faced kangaroo | |
Reptilia | |
Wonambi naracoortensis Smith 1976 snake | |
Elapidae indet. Boié 1827 snake | |
Varanus sp. Merrem 1820 monitor lizard | |
Agamidae indet. Gray 1827 squamates | |
Aves | |
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird |