First Certain Fossil Record of <i>Orlitia borneensis</i> (Testudines: Geoemydidae) from the Pleistocene of Central Java, Indonesia

• SETIYABUDI Erick

  Geology Museum

• TAKAHASHI Akio

  Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Okayama University of Science

• KAIFU Yosuke

  Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• First Certain Fossil Record of Orlitia borneensis (Testudines: Geoemydidae) from the Pleistocene of Central Java, Indonesia

Abstract

A fossil identified as Orlitia borneensis was found from the river bottom of the Solo River in Sambungmacan, eastern Central Java, Indonesia. The sandy matrix attached to the specimen strongly suggests that it was eroded out from the Middle Pleistocene fluvial deposit on the river bank, as most of the assorted vertebrate fossils have been found from this area. Because two fragmentary fossils that were previously referred to this species from the Lower Pleistocene of Trinil lack diagnostic morphological characteristics, the specimen reported here is the first certain fossil record of the species from Java. The present findings suggest that O. borneensis had a wider distribution in the past, but the Java population would have become extinct by the end of the Middle Pleistocene.

Journal

• Current Herpetology

  Current Herpetology 35 (2), 75-82, 2016

  The Herpetological Society of Japan

Keywords

• Local population extinction
• Middle Pleistocene
• Sambungmacan site
• Solo River
• Turtle fossil

Details

• CRID: 1390001204714395776
• NII Article ID: 130005262364
• NII Book ID: AA12246863
• DOI: 10.5358/hsj.35.75
• ISSN: 18811019
• ISSN: 13455834
• NDL BIB ID: 027557891
• Web Site: http://id.ndl.go.jp/bib/027557891
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I027557891
• Text Lang: en
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