Where: South Australia, Australia (30.9° S, 140.2° E: paleocoordinates 45.7° S, 136.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Namba Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• The accepted age for the Namba formation has varied from late Oligocene-early Miocene. Woodburne et al. 1994 suggested a late Oligocene age for the correlated faunas of Zone A in the Etadunna Formation. Martin 1990 also suggested that an early Miocene age was unlikely based on pollen data. Megirian et al. 2010 also used a late Oligocene age of 28-24Ma for the Namba Formation.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by NMV in 1974; reposited in the ANSP

• National Museum of Victoria (NMV)

Primary reference: M. Archer. 1982. Review of the dasyurid (Marsupialia) fossil record, integration of data bearing on phylogenetic interpretation, and suprageneric classification. In M. Archer (ed.), Carnivorous Marsuliaps 2:397-443 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 136534: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Albert Garcia Selles on 29.11.2012, edited by Mark Uhen

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