Dunstan's Lime Kilns : Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Bothriembryon sp.
Luinodicus sp.
Austrosuccinea sp.
Reptilia - Varanidae
Varanus sp. Merrem 1820
Mammalia - Diprotodontia - Potoroidae
Bettongia lesueuri
Bettongia penicillata Gray 1837
Mammalia - Diprotodontia - Macropodidae
Petrogale sp. Gray 1837
spelled with current rank as Macropus (Petrogale)
Mammalia - Dasyuromorphia - Dasyuridae
Sarcophilus sp. Cuvier 1837
Dasyurus sp. Geoffroy 1796
Mammalia - Peramelemorphia - Peramelidae
Isoodon sp. Desmarest 1817
Bivalvia - Unionida - Hyriidae
Westralunio sp. Iredale 1934
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Western Australia County:Wanneroo
Coordinates: 31.6° South, 115.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.6° South, 115.8° 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: poorly lithified calcareous breccia
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:sieve
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:90 Nowergup Road, Wanneroo
Database number:182819
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:N. Visalden
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-11-25 13:42:16 Last modified:2016-11-25 13:42:16
Access level:the public Released:2016-11-25 13:42:16
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
60965. A. M. Douglas, G. W. Kendrick, and D. Merrilees. 1966. A fossil bone deposit near Perth, Western Australia, interpreted as a carnivore's den after feeding tests on living Sarcophilus (Marsupialia, Dasyuridae). Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 49:88-90 [M. Uhen/N. Visalden]