Lake Callabonna (Pleistocene of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (29.7° S, 140.1° E: paleocoordinates 30.4° S, 139.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: South Australia Museum (SAM)

Primary reference: G. J. Prideaux. 2004. Systematics and evolution of the sthenurine kangaroos. In S. W. Awramik, A. Barnosky, J. A. Doyle, M. L. Droser, P. M. Sadler (eds.), UC Publications in Geological Sciences, University of California Press 146:1-623 [G. Prideaux/G. Gully/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 135981: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Albert Garcia Selles on 13.11.2012, edited by Jonathan Tennant

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Diprotodontia -
Sthenurus andersoni Marcus 1962 short-faced kangaroo
Sthenurus tindalei Tedford 1966 short-faced kangaroo
 Diprotodontia - Diprotodontidae
Diprotodon sp.2 Owen 1838 diprotodont marsupial
 Diprotodontia - Vombatidae
Phascolonus gigas1 Owen 1859 wombat