NW of Glen Inns. (Pleistocene of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (29.6° S, 151.8° E: paleocoordinates 30.3° S, 151.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gravel

• The fossils occur in thin sapphire-bearing gravels

•and grey clay beneath a layer of black soil

•less than a meter in thickness

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. Runnergar. 1981. A Diprotodon ulna chewed by the marsupial lion,Thylacoleo carnifex. Alcheringia 7(1):23-25 [M. Uhen/D. Perez/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 181761: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Daniel Perez on 30.09.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Diprotodontia - Macropodidae
"Procoptodon goliah" = Macropus goliah, "Macropus robustus" = Macropus (Osphranter) robustus, "Macropus titan" = Macropus (Macropus) giganteus
"Procoptodon goliah" = Macropus goliah Owen 1874 kangaroo
"Macropus robustus" = Macropus (Osphranter) robustus Gould 1841 eastern wallaroo
"Macropus titan" = Macropus (Macropus) giganteus Shaw 1790 eastern grey kangaroo
 Diprotodontia -
Procoptodon pusio Owen 1874 short-faced kangaroo
Procoptodon rapha Owen 1874 short-faced kangaroo
Propleopus oscillans De Vis 1888 diprotodont marsupial
 Diprotodontia - Diprotodontidae
Diprotodon optatum Owen 1838 diprotodont marsupial
Nototherium mitchelli Owen 1845 diprotodont marsupial
 Diprotodontia - Vombatidae
Phascolonus gigas Owen 1859 wombat
 Diprotodontia - Thylacoleonidae
Thylacoleo carnifex Owen 1859 diprotodont marsupial