Also known as Darling Downs

Where: Queensland, Australia (26.8° S, 150.6° E: paleocoordinates 29.4° S, 150.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chinchilla Sand Formation, Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• Although no direct dates have been obtained for this deposit, biocorrelation suggests the deposit is early to middle Pliocene (Tedford et al. 1992, Mackness et al. 2000).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: alluvial fan; lithified, ferruginous, quartzose, calcareous sandstone and poorly lithified, silty, sandy claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Silvaroo bila were collected by Ces and Doris Wilkinson

Primary reference: J. T. Woods. 1960. Fossiliferous fluviatile and cave deposits. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia 7:393-403 [J. Hunter/J. Hunter/J. Hunter]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 13318: authorized by John Hunter, entered by John Hunter on 20.02.2002, edited by Mark Uhen, Albert Garcia Selles, Philip Mannion and Grace Varnham

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