Where: Western Australia, Australia (32.5° S, 123.9° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 33.1° S, 123.8° E (Wright 2013)
• 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 136150: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Albert Garcia Selles on 20.11.2012
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Metasthenurus newtonae Prideaux 2000 short-faced kangaroo
Sthenurus tindalei Tedford 1966 short-faced kangaroo |