Andrahomana Cave
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| Location | Andranobory (Anosy, Madagascar) |
| Coordinates | 25°7′S 46°31′E / 25.117°S 46.517°E |
The Andrahomana Cave is a complex of sinkholes in Andranobory (Anosy region, near Fort-Dauphin) in south eastern Madagascar.[1][2]
Megafauna
[edit]It is remarkable due to the number of fossils of extinct megafauna of the island. It is where were found, among other animals, fossils of the giant lemur Hadropithecus stenognathus,[3][4] the pygmy hippo Hippopotamus lemerlei,[5] and the giant land tortoise Aldabrachelys grandidieri.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Mahé J. The Malagasy subfossils. In Biogeography and ecology in Madagascar 1972 (pp. 339-365). Springer, Dordrecht.
- ^ D. A. Burney (2008). "New Findings at Andrahomana Cave, Southeastern Madagascar". Journal of Cave and Karst Studies. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.594.8897.
- ^ rGodfrey LR, Jungers WL, Burney DA, Vasey N, Wheeler W, Lemelin P, Shapiro LJ, Schwartz GT, King SJ, Ramarolahy MF, Raharivony LL. New discoveries of skeletal elements of Hadropithecus stenognathus from Andrahomana Cave, southeastern Madagascar. Journal of human evolution. 2006 Oct 1;51(4):395-410.
- ^ Tattersall I. Reconstruction of an extraordinary extinct primate from Madagascar. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2008 Aug 5;105(31):10639-40. [1] (open access)
- ^ MacPhee RD, Burney DA. Dating of modified femora of extinct dwarf Hippopotamus from southern Madagascar: implications for constraining human colonization and vertebrate extinction events. Journal of Archaeological Science. 1991 Nov 1;18(6):695-706.
- ^ Goodman SM, Jungers WL. Human Interactions with Now-Extinct Land Vertebrates. In Extinct Madagascar 2021 Jan 20 (pp. 47-51). University of Chicago Press.
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