Morobe Goldfields (Pleistocene of Papua New Guinea)

Where: Papua New Guinea (7.2° S, 146.6° E: paleocoordinates 7.9° S, 146.4° E)

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• Otibanda Lake beds

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments and tuff

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 182923: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margot Nelson on 28.11.2016

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Diprotodontia - Diprotodontidae
Nototherium watutense Anderson 1937 diprotodont marsupial
 Diprotodontia - Macropodidae
Macropodidae indet. Gray 1821 kangaroo