• DOI:10.1038/nature05471
Corpus ID: 4429899

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

@article{Prideaux2007AnAM,
  title={An arid-adapted middle Pleistocene vertebrate fauna from south-central Australia},
  author={G. Prideaux and J. Long and L. Ayliffe and J. Hellstrom and B. Pillans and W. Boles and M. Hutchinson and R. Roberts and M. L. Cupper and L. Arnold and Paul D. Devine and N. Warburton},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2007},
  volume={445},
  pages={422-425}
}

G. Prideaux, J. Long, +9 authors N. Warburton

Published 2007

Biology, Medicine

Nature

How well the ecology, zoogeography and evolution of modern biotas is understood depends substantially on knowledge of the Pleistocene. Australia has one of the most distinctive, but least understood, Pleistocene faunas. Records from the western half of the continent are especially rare. Here we report on a diverse and exceptionally well preserved middle Pleistocene vertebrate assemblage from caves beneath the arid, treeless Nullarbor plain of south-central Australia. Many taxa are represented… CONTINUE READING

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