SAM Quarry North (Oligocene of Australia)
Where: South Australia, Australia (28.8° S, 138.4° E: paleocoordinates 43.7° S, 133.7° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: 6 Member (Etadunna Formation), Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)
• Ngapakaldi Fauna
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
• quartz sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Primary reference: M. O. Woodburne and R. H. Tedford. 1975. The first Tertiary monotreme from Australia. American Museum of Novitates 2588:1-11 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 95828: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 01.05.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Mammalia | |
Obdurodon insignis n. gen. n. sp.
Obdurodon insignis n. gen. n. sp. Woodburne and Tedford 1975 platypus | |