Spoil heap from Wellington Caves: Early/Lower Pliocene - Pleistocene, Australia
collected by December 1995
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Dasyuromorphia
- Thylacinidae
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Thylacinus rostralis n. sp.
De Vis 1894
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De Vis 1894 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Diprotodontia
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Simosthenurus occidentalis
Glauert 1910
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Prideaux 2004 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Scincidae
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Aethesia frangens n. gen., n. sp.
Hutchinson and Scanlon 2009
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| P43196 (holotype mandible) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | New South Wales |
| Coordinates: | 32.6° South, 149.0° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.6° South, 148.6° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pliocene - Pleistocene |
| Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: Osborne (1997) concluded that the oldest bone-bearing bed of the Wellington Caves system is the upper graded-bedded unit of the Phosphate Mine beds. The Phosphate Mine beds yielded specimens of a peramelid marsupial that Muirhead et al. (1997) referred to the early Pliocene species Perameles bowensis. The next oldest deposits are those of Big Sink, which Hand et al. (1988) concluded were early to mid-Pliocene in age. These are overlain unconformably by the Quaternary Mitchell Cave beds (Osborne, 1983, 1997). Thus, A. frangens could be Pleistocene or as old as early Pliocene. |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | salvage,surface (float) | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | December | Collection dates: | 1995 |
| Collection method comments: South Australian Museum collection | |||
Metadata
| Also known as: | Phosphate Mine-Bone Cave complex spoil heap | ||
| Database number: | 118343 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Benson, J. Alroy | Enterer: | R. Benson, A. Garcia Selles | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-10-12 23:41:00 | Last modified: | 2011-10-12 07:41:00 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-10-12 23:41:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 38122. | M. N. Hutchinson and J. D. Scanlon. 2009. New and unusual plio-pleistocene lizard (Reptilia: Scincidae) from Wellington Caves, New South Wales, Australia. Journal of Herpetology 43(1):139-147 [R. Benson/R. Benson] |
Secondary references:
| 42950 | C. W. De Vis. 1894. A thylacine of the earlier nototherian period in Queensland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 8:443-447 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles] | |
| 36547 | G. J. Prideaux. 2004. Systematics and evolution of the sthenurine kangaroos. In S. W. Awramik, A. Barnosky, J. A. Doyle, M. L. Droser, P. M. Sadler (eds.), UC Publications in Geological Sciences, University of California Press 146:1-623 [G. Prideaux/G. Gully/T. Liebrecht] |