Lake Tyers (Pliocene of Australia)
Where: Victoria, Australia (37.8° S, 148.1° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 40.1° S, 148.9° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; pebbly sandstone
• The formation contains rounded pebbles and carbonaceous material, which together with faunal evidence is taken as indicating a near shore environment.
• The rock in which the fossil was found is portion of the Jemmy's Point Formation which has been described as a lithologically diverse series of marine calcareous sands (Wilkins 1963).
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. Plane. 1972. A New Guinea fossil macropodid (Marsupialia) from the marine Pliocene of Victoria, Australia. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 33:33-36 [M. Uhen/J. Joo/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 181422: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Joshua Joo on 13.09.2016
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Protemnodon otibandus kangaroo | |