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

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 and Natalie M. Warburton
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Gavin J. Prideaux: Western Australian Museum
John A. Long: Western Australian Museum
Linda K. Ayliffe: University of Utah
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

Nature, 2007, vol. 445, issue 7126, 422-425

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.

Date: 2007
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