Where: South Australia, Australia (37.1° S, 140.8° E: paleocoordinates 37.8° S, 140.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Southe 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 136427: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Albert Garcia Selles on 28.11.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Procoptodon gilli Merriless 1965 short-faced kangaroo
Simosthenurus maddocki Wells and Murray 1979 short-faced kangaroo
Simosthenurus occidentalis Glauert 1910 short-faced kangaroo
Simosthenurus baileyi Prideaux and Wells 1998 short-faced kangaroo | |