Also known as adjacent to Lake Kanunka, eastern Lake Eyre Basin
Where: South Australia, Australia (28.4° S, 138.3° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 30.9° S, 138.5° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pompapillina Member (Tirari Formation), Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: fine channel fill; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by R. H. Tedford in 1961
Primary reference: G. J. Prideaux and R. H. Tedford. 2012. Tjukuru wellsi, gen. et sp. nov., a lagostrophine kangaroo (Diprotodontia, Macropodidae) from the Pliocene (Tirarian) of northern South Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32(3):717-721 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 135761: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Albert Garcia Selles on 07.11.2012
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Tjukuru wellsi n. gen. n. sp.
Tjukuru wellsi n. gen. n. sp. Prideaux and Tedford 2012 kangaroo | |
cf. Archaeosimos sp. Prideaux 2004 short-faced kangaroo
Sthenurus cf. tindalei Tedford 1966 short-faced kangaroo |