Age constraints on Pleistocene megafauna at Tight Entrance Cave in southwestern Australia

Linda K. Ayliffe; Gavin J. Prideaux; Michael I. Bird; Rainer Gruen; Richard G. Roberts; Grant A. Gully; Rhys Jones; L. Keith Fifield; Richard G. Cresswell

doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.07.008

Age constraints on Pleistocene megafauna at Tight Entrance Cave in southwestern Australia

Linda K. Ayliffe^*, Gavin J. Prideaux, Michael I. Bird, Rainer Gruen, Richard G. Roberts, Grant A. Gully, Rhys Jones, L. Keith Fifield, Richard G. Cresswell

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A well-stratified succession of fossiliferous sediments occurs in Tight Entrance Cave, southwestern Australia. These infill deposits contain the remains of megafauna and have accumulated intermittently since the Middle Pleistocene: >137,137-119 and 50-29 ka, according to the results of C-14, U-Th, ESR and OSL dating techniques. Megafaunal species richness was highest in the latest part of the penultimate glacial maximum and during the subsequent last interglacial (137-119 ka), but remains are less abundant following an apparent similar to 70 ka depositional hiatus in the sequence. Most megafaunal specimens from the upper (

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1784-1788
Number of pages	5
Journal	Quaternary Science Reviews
Volume	27
Issue number	17-18
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.07.008
Publication status	Published - Sept 2008

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Age constraints on Pleistocene megafauna at Tight Entrance Cave in southwestern Australia

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