Kingsthorpe (Pleistocene of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (27.5° S, 151.8° E: paleocoordinates 28.1° S, 151.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• in Pleistocene fluviatile deposits

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. J. Price. 2008. Taxonomy and palaeobiology of the largest-ever marsupial, Diprotodon Owen, 1838 (Diprotodontidae, Marsupialia). Zoological Journal Linnean Society 153:369-397 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende/A. Garcia Selles]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 137640: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Albert Garcia Selles on 18.12.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Diprotodontia - Diprotodontidae
Diprotodon sp. Owen 1838 diprotodont marsupial