Lake Eyre (North) (Pleistocene of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (29.0° S, 137.8° E: paleocoordinates 29.7° S, 137.6° E)

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; poorly lithified, gypsiferous, argillaceous, calcareous mudstone and unlithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. A. Dulhunty, T. F. Flannery, and J. A. Mahoney. 1984. Fossil marsupial remains at the southeastern corner of Lake Eyre North, South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 108:119-122 [M. Uhen/N. Visalden]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 182820: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Nicholas Visalden on 25.11.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Diprotodontia -
Sthenurus andersoni Marcus 1962 short-faced kangaroo
 Diprotodontia - Macropodidae
Macropodinae indet. Gray 1821 kangaroo
 Diprotodontia - Diprotodontidae
Diprotodon sp. Owen 1838 diprotodont marsupial