Grant Hall (Layer 1)
Basic information
Sample name: Grant Hall (Layer 1)
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: 1
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: rodents, other large mammals, other small mammals, lizards, snakes
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 67 specimens
Years: 2000
Net or trap nights: 0
Basal area status: not applicable
Metadata
Sample no: 3357
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-08-26 18:23:59
Modified: 2023-04-29 00:41:25
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
23 species
10 singletons
total count 67
geometric series index: 56.7
Fisher's α: 12.376
geometric series k: 0.9098
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9288
Shannon's H: 2.8566
Good's u: 0.8516
Register
| Notamacropus rufogriseus (red-necked wallaby) | 6 | |
| "Macropus rufogriseus" | ||
| †Protemnodon cf. brehus (giant kangaroo) | 1 | |
| Wallabia bicolor (swamp wallaby) | 3 | |
| †Procoptodon gilli (short-faced kangaroo) | 8 | |
| "Simosthenurus gilli" | ||
| †Simosthenurus occidentalis (short-faced kangaroo) | 1 | |
| †Sthenurus andersoni (short-faced kangaroo) | 1 | |
| †Thylacinus cynocephalus (thylacine) | 4 | |
| †Thylacoleo carnifex | 8 | |
| Vombatus ursinus (common wombat) | 2 | 29.0 kg |
| †Zygomaturus trilobus | 1 | |
| Phascolarctos cinereus (koala) | 1 | 9.1 kg |
| Antechinus flavipes (yellow-footed antechinus) | 1 | |
| Dasyurus viverrinus (eastern quoll) | 1 | |
| Sminthopsis crassicaudata (fat-tailed dunnart) | 2 | |
| Perameles cf. gunnii (eastern barred bandicoot) | 6 | |
| includes four questionably referred specimens | ||
| †Potorous platyops (broad-faced potoroo) | 3 | |
| Notomys mitchellii | 3 | |
| Pseudomys australis | 3 | |
| Pseudomys shortridgei | 6 | |
| Rattus fuscipes | 3 | |
| Rattus tunneyi | 1 | |
| Elapidae indet. | 1 | |
| Varanus sp. | 1 | |