Kelangurr Cave (Pleistocene of Papua New Guinea)

Where: Irian Jaya, Papua New Guinea (4.1° S, 138.1° E: paleocoordinates 4.8° S, 137.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported

• in intermontane basins

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: T. F. Flannery. 1992. New Pleistocene marsupials (Macropodidae, Diprotodontidae) from subalpine habitats in Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Alcheringa 16(4):321-331 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 137789: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Albert Garcia Selles on 19.12.2012

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Diprotodontia - Diprotodontidae
Maokopia ronaldi n. gen. n. sp.
Maokopia ronaldi n. gen. n. sp. Flannery 1992 diprotodont marsupial