Quarternary Mammal Fossils in Borneo: Retraction and Review.
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THE SARAWAK MUSEUM JOURNAL |
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Title :
Quarternary Mammal Fossils in Borneo: Retraction and Review. |
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Author :
Earl of Cranbrook, G.W.H. Davison & A.P. Currant |
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Abstract:
In an earlier note we described two fossils bought at a curio shop in Kuching in 1999: the rear portion of a lower 3rd molar of a stegodont, stegodon aff. elephantoids = trigonocephalus, and a fragment of the upper jaw of a hippopotamus, Hippopotamus sivalensis, both being extinct members of the South-east Asian Pliocene-Middle Pleistocene mammal megafauna (Cranbrook, Currant & Davison, 2000). We drew attention to the three proboscidean fossils of late Tertiaryor Quaternary age previously found in Borneo: (1) the left upper molar of Mastodon latidens— Stegolophodon lydekkeri, originally presentedto the Zoological Society of London by A.H. Everett in 1885, and said to have been “found bya Kadayan in the jungle in the vicinity of Bruni,on the north-west coast of Borneo” (Lydekker, 1885; Osborn, 1942; Medway, 1972); (2) a right upper 2nd and 3rd molar of Palaeoloxodon cf namadicus, said to have been found, some time in the 19'*’ century, “northeast of Samarinda, Eastern Borneo, about an hour’s walk from the seashore” (Hooijer, 1952); and (3)a portion of a right upper P' molar of the modern Asiatic elephant, Elephas maximus, said to have come from a “cavern” in Belait District, Brunei, and thought by Hooijer (1972) “more likely to be Pleistocene than Holocene”.
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| DOI: XXXX |
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How to cite:
Earl of Cranbrook et al. (2006). Quarternary Mammal Fossils in Borneo: Retraction and Review. The Sarawak Museum Journal, LXII (83): 107-119 |
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