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Last recorded evidence for megafauna at Wet Cave, Naracoorte, South Australia 45,000 years ago

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posted on 2023-05-20, 03:23 authored by Pate, FD, Matthew McDowell, Wells, RT, Smith, AM
Over 85 percent of Australian terrestrial vertebrate genera with a body mass greater than 44 kg became extinct during the late Pleistocene. These included all marsupials exceeding I 00 kg ( 19 species) and 22 of the 38 species between l O and I 00 kg. Dwarfing occurred in many other species (Flannery 1990; Miller et al. 1999). The larger of these extinct animals have been categorised as megafauna.

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Publication title

Australian Archaeology

Volume

54

Pagination

53-55

ISSN

0312-2417

Department/School

School of Natural Sciences

Publisher

Routledge

Place of publication

Australia

Rights statement

Copyright 2002 Taylor & Francis

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  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Terrestrial biodiversity

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