Kria Cave: Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene, Indonesia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Megapodiidae
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Aepypodius arfakiensis
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| Salvadori, 1877 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Indonesia | State/province: | Irian Jaya | County: | Bird's Head Peninsula |
| Coordinates: | 1.7° South, 132.5° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 1.8° South, 132.5° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
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 |
| Age estimate: | 6900 ± 80 YBP (14C) |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified calcareous,carbonaceous "limestone" |
| Environment: | cave |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Associated major elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 191888 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Ross | Enterer: | L. Spahr |
| Created: | 2018-02-19 22:03:49 | Last modified: | 2018-02-19 22:03:49 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-02-19 22:03:49 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 64758. | K. P. Aplin, J. M. Pasveer, and W. E. Boles. 1999. Quaternary vertebrates from the Bird’s Head Peninsual, Irian Jaya, Indonesia, including descriptions of two previously unknown marsupial species. In A. Baynes and J. A. Long (eds.), Papers in Vertebrate Paleontology, Records of the Western Australian Museum 57:351-387 [M. Ross/L. Spahr] |