Golden Fleece, Lake Palankarinna (Pliocene of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (28.8° S, 138.4° E: paleocoordinates 31.6° S, 137.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mampuwordu Sand Member (Tirari Formation), Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• Megirian et al. 2010: The oldest age for the Tirarian is for the bone-bearing paleosol beneath a basalt 40K/40Ar-dated to 4.46 6 0.01 Ma near Hamilton, Victoria (Table 2). The youngest available age estimate for the Tirarian is for the Pompapillina Member of the Tirari Formation, which Tedford et al. (1992) placed near the top of the Gilbert chron, now calibrated to 3.60 Ma (Table 2, Fig. 3) (Gradstein et al. 2005).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; gray sandstone

• pale gray fluviatile channel sand

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. M. Yates and N. S. Pledge. 2017. A Pliocene mekosuchine (Eusuchia: Crocodilia) from the Lake Eyre Basin of South Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(1):e1244540:1-15 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182671: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 21.11.2016

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Chelidae
Elseya cf. lavarackorum White 1994 sideneck turtle
 Crocodylia -
Kalthifrons aurivellensis n. gen. n. sp. Yates and Pledge 2017 crocodilian
SAM P35062 - holotype; referred material: SAM P35062