Grant Hall (Layer 2)
Basic information
Sample name: Grant Hall (Layer 2)
Sample aka: Victoria Fossil Cave
Reference: R. A. Fraser and R. T. Wells. 2006. Palaeontological excavation and taphonomic investigation of the late Pleistocene fossil deposit in Grant Hall, Victoria Fossil Cave, Naracoorte, South Australia. Alcheringa 30(S1):147-161 [ER 3083]
Geography
Country: Australia
State: South Australia
Coordinate: 37° 2' S, 141° 48' E
Latlng basis: based on nearby landmark
Time interval: Late Pleistocene
Section: 3083
Unit number: 2
Unit order: above to below
Max Ma: 0.093
Min Ma: 0.076
Age basis: OSL
Geography comments: "within the Victoria Fossil Cave, approximately 50m from the main Fossil Chamber... The age of the Grant Hall fossil deposit has been constrained between 206 ka and 76 ka by uranium-series dating of associated speleothems"
OSL dates on sediments associated with the faunal assemblage range from 93 ± 8 ka to 76 ± 6 ka (Macken et al. 2011).
coordinate based on Naracoorte Caves National Park
OSL dates on sediments associated with the faunal assemblage range from 93 ± 8 ka to 76 ± 6 ka (Macken et al. 2011).
coordinate based on Naracoorte Caves National Park
Environment
Lithology: sandstone
Taphonomic context: cave, pitfall trap
Habitat comments: "The fossil-bearing sediments were sandwiched between separate flowstones that covered the limestone base of the cave and overlaid the sediment's surface... The sediments were largely homogeneous, consisting of a mixture of red/brown and pale yellow medium to fine sub-rounded quartz grains, mixed with darker red-brown clay particles... The natural trapping of unwary animals via a pit-fall was therefore proposed as the predominant method by which the large mammal bones came to be in the cave"
Methods
Life forms: bats, rodents, other large mammals, other small mammals, birds, lizards, snakes, turtles
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 431 specimens
Years: 2000
Net or trap nights: 0
Basal area status: not applicable
Metadata
Sample no: 3358
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-08-26 18:30:15
Modified: 2023-04-29 00:41:23
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
38 species
9 singletons
total count 431
geometric series index: 59.2
Fisher's α: 10.048
geometric series k: 0.8948
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9376
Shannon's H: 3.0702
Good's u: 0.9791
Register
| Notamacropus rufogriseus (red-necked wallaby) | 24 | |
| "Macropus rufogriseus" | ||
| Wallabia bicolor (swamp wallaby) | 27 | |
| †Procoptodon gilli (short-faced kangaroo) | 27 | |
| "Simosthenurus gilli" | ||
| †Simosthenurus occidentalis (short-faced kangaroo) | 4 | |
| †Procoptodon browneorum (short-faced kangaroo) | 1 | |
| †Simosthenurus maddocki (short-faced kangaroo) | 1 | |
| †Thylacinus cynocephalus (thylacine) | 7 | |
| †Thylacoleo carnifex | 15 | |
| Vombatus ursinus (common wombat) | 6 | 29.0 kg |
| †Zygomaturus trilobus | 28 | |
| Phascolarctos cinereus (koala) | 7 | 9.1 kg |
| Cercartetus nanus (eastern pygmy possum) | 1 | 18.9 g |
| Antechinus flavipes (yellow-footed antechinus) | 11 | |
| includes one questionably referred specimen | ||
| Dasyurus viverrinus (eastern quoll) | 4 | |
| Phascogale tapoatafa (brush-tailed phascogale) | 1 | |
| Sminthopsis crassicaudata (fat-tailed dunnart) | 17 | |
| Sminthopsis murina (slender-tailed dunnart) | 4 | |
| Perameles gunnii (eastern barred bandicoot) | 6 | |
| Petaurus breviceps (sugar glider) | 1 | |
| †Potorous platyops (broad-faced potoroo) | 5 | |
| Potorous tridactylus (long-nosed potoroo) | 32 | 731.0 g |
| Pseudocheirus peregrinus (common ringtail possum) | 3 | |
| Notomys mitchellii | 6 | |
| Pseudomys apodemoides | 14 | |
| Pseudomys australis | 12 | |
| Pseudomys auritus | 2 | |
| "Pseudomys basalticus" | ||
| Pseudomys cf. fumeus | 17 | |
| Rattus fuscipes (bush rat) | 34 | |
| Rattus lutreolus (Australian swamp rat) | 3 | |
| Rattus tunneyi (pale field rat) | 6 | |
| Miniopterus cf. schreibersii | 1 | 12.2 g |
| Elapidae indet. | 35 | |
| Testudines indet. | 3 | |
| "Chelonia indet." | ||
| Varanus sp. | 61 | |
| Pogona cf. barbata | 1 | |
| Tiliqua nigrolutea | 1 | |
| Tiliqua rugosa | 2 | |
| Aves indet. | 1 | |