Also known as Cooper Creek

Where: South Australia, Australia (27.8° S, 140.7° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 30.2° S, 140.9° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Tirari Formation, Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• Megirian et al. 2010: The oldest age for the Tirarian is for the bone-bearing paleosol beneath a basalt 40K/40Ar-dated to 4.46 6 0.01 Ma near Hamilton, Victoria (Table 2). The youngest available age estimate for the Tirarian is for the Pompapillina Member of the Tirari Formation, which Tedford et al. (1992) placed near the top of the Gilbert chron, now calibrated to 3.60 Ma (Table 2, Fig. 3) (Gradstein et al. 2005).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: South Australian 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 136148: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Albert Garcia Selles on 20.11.2012, edited by Philip Mannion

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