Where: Western Australia, Australia (30.9° S, 130.5° E: paleocoordinates 31.6° S, 130.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the WAM
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 136113: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Albert Garcia Selles on 19.11.2012, edited by Graeme Lloyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Metasthenurus newtonae Prideaux 2000 short-faced kangaroo
Sthenurus andersoni Marcus 1962 short-faced kangaroo | |
Reptilia | |
Progura campestris n. sp. Shute et al. 2017 megapode WAM 15.9.5, WAM 15.9.16, 15.9.17, 15.9.18, 15.9.27, 15.9.28, 15.9.29, 15.9.30, 7 cervical vertebrae; WAM 15.9.13, dL humerus; WAM 15.9.14, pL humerus; WAM 15.9.15, pR humerus; WAM 15.9.32, L os carpi ulnare; WAM 15.9.9, R carpometacarpus; WAM 15.9.8, R coracoid; WAM 15.9.11, L tarsometatarsus; WAM 15.9.12, pR tarsometatarsus; WAM 15.9.1, dL tarsometatarsus; WAM 15.9.7, pL tarsometatarsus; WAM 15.9.31, phalanx I.1, L and R
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