Where: South Australia, Australia (29.7° S, 140.1° E: paleocoordinates 29.7° S, 140.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• "The evidence of higher rainfall suggests that the true age of the deposits may be as much as 70,000 years, when the last major glacial episode of the Pleistocene or Ice Age began."
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified, muddy limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. Tedford. 1984. The Diprotodons of Callabonna. In M. Archer & G. Clayton (ed.), Vertebrate Zoogeography and Evolution in Australasia 999-1002 [A. Stafford/A. Stafford]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 182110: authorized by Amber Stafford, entered by Amber Stafford on 10.10.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Diprotodon sp. Owen 1838 diprotodont marsupial |