Ashford Cave (Pleistocene of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (29.2° S, 151.0° E: paleocoordinates 29.2° S, 151.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

Environment/lithology: cave; shelly/skeletal, red breccia

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. E. Molnar, L. S. Hall, and J. H. Mahoney. 1984. New fossil localities for Macroderma Miller, 1906 (Chiroptera, Megadermatidae) in New South Wales and its past and present distribution in Australia. Australian Mammalogy 7(1-2):63-73 [M. Uhen/J. Joo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 182321: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Joshua Joo on 23.10.2016

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Chiroptera - Megadermatidae
Macroderma sp. Miller false vampire
 Dasyuromorphia - Thylacinidae
Thylacinus cynocephalus Harris 1808 thylacine
 Peramelemorphia - Peramelidae
Isoodon obesulus Shaw 1797 short-nosed bandicoot