Trinil (Pleistocene of Indonesia)

Where: Jawa Timur, Indonesia (7.4° S, 111.3° E: paleocoordinates 7.4° S, 111.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: G. D. van den Bergh. 1999. The Late Neogene elephantoid-bearing faunas of Indonesia and their palaeozoogeographic implications. A study of the terrestrial faunal succession of Sulawesi, Flores and Java, including evidence for early hominid dispersal east of Wallace's Line. Scripta Geologica 117:1-419 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 93521: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 20.01.2010, edited by Philip Mannion and Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Hystricidae
Hystrix brachyurus porcupine
= Acanthion
 Primates - Cercopithecidae
"Presbytis cristatus" = Trachypithecus cristatus Raffles 1821 silvery lutung
= Trachypithecus
Macaca fascicularis2 Raffles 1822 crab eating macaque
 Primates - Hominidae
Homo erectus Dubois 1892 human
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinoceros sondaicus Desmarest 1822 Javan rhinoceros
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Sus brachygnathus Dubois 1908 pig
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Muntiacus muntjak, "Axis lydekkeri" = Cervus lydekkeri
Muntiacus muntjak Rafinesque 1815 muntjak
"Axis lydekkeri" = Cervus lydekkeri Martin 1888 deer
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bubalus palaeokerabau Dubois 1908 water buffalo
 Carnivora - Felidae
Panthera tigris Linnaeus 1758 tiger
Prionailurus bengalensis Kerr 1792 leopard cat
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Stegodon trigonocephalus Martin 1887 elephant
Reptilia
 Testudines - Geoemydidae
Batagur affinis5 Cantor 1847 Southern River terrapin
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Chitra minor n. sp.4, "Trionyx trinilensis n. sp." = Amyda cartilaginea4, "Chitra selenkae n. sp." = Chitra chitra4
Chitra minor n. sp.4 Jaekel 1911 softshell turtle
MB R2496.1-2 (syntypes), a right xiphiplastron and a left hypoplastron
"Trionyx trinilensis n. sp." = Amyda cartilaginea4 Boddaert 1770 softshell turtle
MB R.2754.1-2 (holotype), an epiplastron and entoplastron
"Chitra selenkae n. sp." = Chitra chitra4 Nutaphand 1986 softshell turtle
MB R2495.1-3 (syntypes), a scapula, a right xiphiplastron, and a clavicle
 Squamata - Varanidae
Varanus komodoensis3 Ouwens 1912 Komodo dragon
 Crocodylia - Gavialidae
Gavialis bengawanicus n. sp.1 Dubois 1908 gharial
CD 1, 2 skulls; CD 2, dentary; CD 5, rostrum; CD 7, mandible; CD 8, dentary; CD 9 + 1617a, skull; CD 10 [partim], 86 teeth; CD 34b [partim], 33 teeth; CD 246 [partim], 3 jugals and 2 skull fragments; CD 1473c [partim], 162 teeth; CD 1477 [partim], 2 teeth; CD 1615 [partim], 190 teeth; CD 1616, skull table and 10 teeth; CD 1618, supraoccipital; CD 1620, dentary; CD 1621a, dentary; CD 1623, skull; CD 2655 [partim], 68 teeth; CD 6401, axis; MB R 1957.1–2, mandible; MB R 1960, skull; MB R unnumbered, 103 teeth, 1 mandibular fragment, 1 skull roof
 Crocodylia - Crocodylidae
"Crocodylus ossifragus n. sp." = Crocodylus siamensis1
"Crocodylus ossifragus n. sp." = Crocodylus siamensis1 Schneider 1801 Siamese crocodile
CD 10 [partim], 5 teeth; CD 11, skull; CD 15, mandible; CD 16, dentary; CD 17, mandible; CD 18, dentary, CD 19, mandible, CD 27, dentary; CD 28, maxilla; CD 53, angular; CD 74, premaxilla; CD 1477 [partim], 33 teeth; CD 2005, tooth; CD 2184 [partim], 57 teeth; CD 2707, 22 teeth; CD 2714, mandible; CD 10111a, dentary; CD 10544, mandible; CD 1617b [partim], pterygoid and ectopterygoid; MB R 1958, mandible; MB R 1959, skull; MB R unnumbered, 10 teeth, 1 premaxilla, 1 mandibular fragment, 1 osteoderm