Skull Cave (AU-8): Holocene, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Phasianidae
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Coturnix sp.
Bonnaterre 1791
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4 specimens | ||||||
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Reptilia
- Passeriformes
- Artamidae
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Artamus cyanopterus
(Latham 1801)
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Reptilia
- Passeriformes
- Atrichornithidae
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Atrichornis clamosus
(Gould 1844)
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13 specimens | ||||||
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Reptilia
- Passeriformes
- Hirundinidae
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Hirundinidae indet.
Rafinesque 1815
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Reptilia
- Passeriformes
- Dasyornithidae
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Dasyornis longirostris
Gould 1841
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2 specimens | ||||||
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Reptilia
- Passeriformes
- Maluridae
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Malurus sp.
Vieillot 1816
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Reptilia
- Caprimulgiformes
- Aegothelidae
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Aegotheles cristatus
(Shaw 1790)
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Reptilia
- Columbiformes
- Columbidae
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Phaps elegans
(Temminck 1809)
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Reptilia
- Psittaciformes
- Psittaculidae
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Platycercus icterotus
(Temminck and Kuhl 1820)
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5 specimens | ||||||
| recombined as Platycercus icterotis | |||||||
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Glossopsitta porphyrocephala
(Dietrichsen 1837)
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39 specimens | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Western Australia |
| Coordinates: | 34.3° South, 115.0° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.3° South, 115.0° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Holocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Holocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.01170 - 0.00000 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 7875 ± 100 to 2900 ± 80 YBP (14C) |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: No figure was offered to display the distribution of the layers. The vertebrate remains were labelled by excavation level not sedimentary unit. Therefore, except for the depth of the spits involved, there is no stratigraphic information for the specimens. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "siliciclastic" |
| Environment: | cave |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,bone collector |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | WAM |
Metadata
| Database number: | 194981 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2018-07-10 00:05:56 | Last modified: | 2018-07-10 00:05:56 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-07-10 00:05:56 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 66287. | R. F. Baird. 1991. Holocene avian assemblage from Skull Cave (AU-8), south-western Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 15:267-286 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |