FosSahul is the first database compiling ages of nonhuman vertebrate fossils from the Middle Pleistocene to the present in the Sahul region. It includes metadata with reliability ratings for each fossil age. The data is hosted by the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery platform and was last updated in June 2026.
Use Cases
- Calibrating evolutionary timelines based on fossil age data.
- Assessing the reliability of fossil records using the included metadata ratings.
- Studying faunal changes in the Sahul region from the Middle Pleistocene onward.
Strengths
- First database of its kind for the Sahul region.
- Includes reliability ratings for each fossil age as mentioned in the description.
- Covers a temporal range from the Middle Pleistocene to the present.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to data_gov_au.
Provenance
- Source
- Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
- Time Range
- Middle Pleistocene to present
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-10 18:48:56.716267; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Sahul region