Victorian Volcanic Plains (Miocene to of Australia)

Also known as VVP

Where: Victoria, Australia (38.0° S, 143.2° E: paleocoordinates 45.9° S, 141.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Miocene to Miocene (23.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• The unnamed lithostratigraphic unit

•containing the trackways is part of a complex of lacustrine and

•associated aeolian deposits surrounded by the Newer Volcanic

•Group, a suite of MioceneeHolocene basaltic lavas and pyroclastics

•that extends from central Victoria westward to the south-eastern

•extremity of South Australia

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified volcaniclastic sediments

• The unnamed lithostratigraphic unit

•containing the trackways is part of a complex of lacustrine and

•associated aeolian deposits surrounded by the Newer Volcanic

•Group, a suite of MioceneeHolocene basaltic lavas and pyroclastics

•that extends from central Victoria westward to the south-eastern

•extremity of South Australia

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

Primary reference: S. P. Carey, M. L. Cupper, R. Gruen, J. C. Hellstrom, S. W. McKnight, I. McLennan, D. A. Pickering, P. Trusler, and M. Aubert. 2011. A diverse Pleistocene marsupial trackway assemblage from the Victorian volcanic plains, Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews 30(5-6):591-610 [M. Uhen/F. Villegas-Garin]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182835: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Franco Villegas-Garin on 25.11.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Vombatidae
Lasiorhinus krefftii Owen 1872 northern hairy-nosed wombat
Tracks
Ramsayia magna Owen 1872 wombat
Tracks
Vombatus ursinus Shaw 1800 common wombat
Tracks
 Theriamorpha - Diprotodontidae
Diprotodon optatum Owen 1838 diprotodont marsupial
Tracks
 Theriamorpha - Thylacoleonidae
Thylacoleo carnifex Owen 1859 diprotodont marsupial
Tracks
 Theriamorpha - Macropodidae
Protemnodon sp. Owen 1874 kangaroo
Tracks