Late Pleistocene Fossil Record of Cuora amboinensis (Testudines: Geoemydidae) from the Wajak Site, East Java, Indonesia, and Its Paleozoogeographic and Archeozoological Implications

Erick Setiyabudi; Iwan Kurniawan; Halmi Insani; Akio Takahashi

doi:10.2517/2020PR007

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1 January 2021 Late Pleistocene Fossil Record of Cuora amboinensis (Testudines: Geoemydidae) from the Wajak Site, East Java, Indonesia, and Its Paleozoogeographic and Archeozoological Implications

Erick Setiyabudi, Iwan Kurniawan, Halmi Insani, Akio Takahashi

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Paleontological Research, 25(1):25-31 (2021). https://doi.org/10.2517/2020PR007

Abstract

A Late Pleistocene fossil represented by an incomplete right hypoplastron of Cuora amboinensis was recovered from the Wajak site (ca. 37 ka–29 ka: Late Pleistocene) in East Java, Indonesia. The fossil constitutes the first certain prehistoric record of this species from Java, which implies that the current conspecific population in this island is indigenous to the region rather than artificially introduced from the Southeast Asian continent in historic times. The specimen has four small distinct impact pits on the hypoplastron in dorsal view, which were possibly caused by a pointed stone artifact or a bone tool. The presence of such percussion marks suggests that this turtle was consumed by the Wajak people.

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Erick Setiyabudi, Iwan Kurniawan, Halmi Insani, and Akio Takahashi "Late Pleistocene Fossil Record of Cuora amboinensis (Testudines: Geoemydidae) from the Wajak Site, East Java, Indonesia, and Its Paleozoogeographic and Archeozoological Implications," Paleontological Research 25(1), 25-31, (1 January 2021). https://doi.org/10.2517/2020PR007

Received: 13 April 2019; Accepted: 3 February 2020; Published: 1 January 2021

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