Fossil marsupials (Macropodidae, Peroryctidae) and other mammals of Holocene age from Halmahera, North Moluccas, Indonesia

摘要: Faunal remains from Gua (cave) Siti Nafisah, central Halmahera, reveal that until at least 1,870 ybp, Halmahera supported a non-volant mammal fauna which was predominantly of New Guinean origin. It consisted three marsupial species; wallaby the genus Dorcopsis, bandicoot (family Peroryctidae, indet.), and Group endemic cuscus Phalanger ornatus. Rattus morotaiensis, is also to Group, probably present. The (both terrestrial species) are now extinct, while arboreal rat survive. Uattamdi site, on small island Kayoa, do not include bandicoots or wallabies. Dorcopsis survived around years ago. possible vanished slightly earlier. Sometime between 3,410 ybp both pigs dogs were successfully introduced. Today soricids, viverrids, cervids several murid species, all Asiatic origin, hav...