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An arid-adapted middle Pleistocene vertebrate fauna from south-central Australia

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  • Gavin J. Prideaux

    (Western Australian Museum)

  • John A. Long

    (Western Australian Museum
    Museum Victoria)

  • Linda K. Ayliffe

    (University of Utah
    Australian National University)

  • John C. Hellstrom

    (University of Melbourne)

  • Brad Pillans

    (Australian National University)

  • Walter E. Boles

    (Australian Museum)

  • Mark N. Hutchinson

    (South Australian Museum)

  • Richard G. Roberts

    (University of Wollongong)

  • Matthew L. Cupper

    (University of Melbourne)

  • Lee J. Arnold

    (University of Wollongong)

  • Paul D. Devine

    (Speleological Research Group Western Australia)

  • Natalie M. Warburton

    (Western Australian Museum)

Abstract

Fossil bonanza A rich source of fossils recently discovered in caves beneath the arid, treeless Nullarbor Plain of western Australia offers a rare glimpse of life in the continent in the Middle Pleistocene (between around 800,000 and 200,000 years ago), long before humans arrived. Despite the remarkable diversity of animals and plants, including eight previously unknown kangaroo species, two of them tree kangaroos, the climate was similar to that of today. This means that climate change alone is unlikely to have been responsible for the subsequent wave of extinctions that swept away most of the Australian megafauna.

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  • Gavin J. Prideaux & John A. Long & Linda K. Ayliffe & John C. Hellstrom & Brad Pillans & Walter E. Boles & Mark N. Hutchinson & Richard G. Roberts & Matthew L. Cupper & Lee J. Arnold & Paul D. Devine , 2007. "An arid-adapted middle Pleistocene vertebrate fauna from south-central Australia," Nature, Nature, vol. 445(7126), pages 422-425, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:445:y:2007:i:7126:d:10.1038_nature05471
    DOI: 10.1038/nature05471
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