Pureni (Pleistocene of Papua New Guinea)
Where: Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea (5.8° S, 142.8° E: paleocoordinates 6.5° S, 142.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithology not reported
• in intermontane basins
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: B. Mackness. 2012. On the identity of ‘Kolopsis’ watutense (Anderson, 1937) (Diprotodontidae, Marsupialia) and the New Guinean diprotodontid radiation. Alcheringa 1-10 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 137788: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Albert Garcia Selles on 19.12.2012
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Hulitherium | |
Hulitherium thomasetti n. gen. n. sp.
Hulitherium thomasetti n. gen. n. sp. Flannery and Plane 1986 |