Also known as Small Hills Locality

Where: Northern Territory, Australia (17.1° S, 131.5° E: paleocoordinates 26.1° S, 128.2° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Camfield Beds Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• said to be late Miocene by Vickers-Rich 1979, but middle Miocene by Murray and Megirian 1998, Schwartz and Megirian 2004, etc.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: original collection is in the Queen Victoria Museum; later Bullock Creek collections such as those in the Northern Territory Museum are broken down by specific site

Primary reference: P. Vickers Rich. 1979. The Dromornithidae, an extinct family of large ground birds endemic to Australia. Bureau of National Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 184:1-193 [J. Hunter/J. Hunter/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13314: authorized by John Hunter, entered by John Hunter on 20.02.2002, edited by Jason Head, John Alroy and Franco Villegas-Garin

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