Lake Callabonna (Pliocene to of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (29.7° S, 140.1° E: paleocoordinates 31.8° S, 139.5° E)

When: Pliocene to Pliocene (5.3 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; green, red claystone

• Tirari Formation
• red-green claystones of the main body of the Pliocene Tirari Formation

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Primary reference: A. Camens and R. Wells. 2009. Diprotodontid footprints from the Pliocene of Central Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(3):863-869 [M. Uhen/F. Villegas-Garin]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 181784: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Franco Villegas-Garin on 02.10.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Diprotodontia - Diprotodontidae
Diprotodon optatum Owen 1838 diprotodont marsupial