Lake Callabonna (Pleistocene of Australia)

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

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Diprotodontia - Diprotodontidae
Diprotodon sp. Owen 1838 diprotodont marsupial