Lake Eyre Basin (Oligocene of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (29.3° S, 137.5° E: paleocoordinates 44.3° S, 132.7° E)

When: Etadunna Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; carbonate

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. T. Woods. 1962. Fossil marsupials and Cainozoic continental stratigraphy in Australia; a review. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 14(2):41-49 [M. Uhen/M. Nelson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 182913: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margot Nelson on 28.11.2016

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Dasyuromorphia - Dasyuridae
Dasyuridae indet. Goldfuss 1820 marsupial
 Diprotodontia - Phascolarctidae
Phascolarctidae indet. Owen 1839 koala
Perikoala sp. Stirton 1957 koala
 Diprotodontia - Diprotodontidae
Diprotodontidae indet. Gill 1872 diprotodont marsupial
 Diprotodontia - Macropodidae
Macropodidae indet. Gray 1821 kangaroo