Freestone Creek (Pliocene to of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (28.1° S, 152.1° E: paleocoordinates 30.1° S, 151.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Pliocene to Pliocene (5.3 - 0.0 Ma)

• "the age of site is established on the base of faunal asseblage and biocorrelation"

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by De Vis in 1891; reposited in the UQ

Primary reference: B. Mackness. 2010. On the identity of Euowenia robusta De Vis, 1891 with a description of a new zygomaturine genus. Alcheringa 34:455-469 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 135668: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Albert Garcia Selles on 01.11.2012

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Diprotodontia - Diprotodontidae
Kukaodonta robusta Mackness 2010 diprotodont marsupial
 Diprotodontia -
Procoptodon rapha Owen 1874 short-faced kangaroo
 Diprotodontia - Macropodidae
"Sthenurus atlas" = Macropus atlas
"Sthenurus atlas" = Macropus atlas Owen 1838 kangaroo