Also known as 5U169, Naracoorte

Where: South Australia, Australia (37.0° S, 140.9° E: paleocoordinates 37.7° S, 140.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; poorly lithified, silty, sandy siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: The cave was discovered in 1999 during vineyard preparation and collecting took place in the course of a salvage excavation within only 72 hours.

•The collected material now is reposited in the Flinders University (FU) pealeontology collection

Primary reference: G. J. Prideaux. 2004. Systematics and evolution of the sthenurine kangaroos. In S. W. Awramik, A. Barnosky, J. A. Doyle, M. L. Droser, P. M. Sadler (eds.), UC Publications in Geological Sciences, University of California Press 146:1-623 [G. Prideaux/G. Gully/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 136073: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Albert Garcia Selles on 16.11.2012, edited by Torsten Liebrecht

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