Cuddle Springs (Pleistocene of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (30.3° S, 147.3° E: paleocoordinates 31.0° S, 147.2° E)

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. N. G. Trueman, J. H. Field, J. Dortch, B. Charles, and S. Wroe. 2005. Prolonged coexistence of humans and megafauna in Pleistocene Australia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 102(23):8381-8385 [A. Stafford/A. Stafford]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 182965: authorized by Amber Stafford, entered by Amber Stafford on 29.11.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Diprotodontia - Macropodidae
Protemnodon indet. Owen 1874 kangaroo
 Diprotodontia - Diprotodontidae
Diprotodon indet. Owen 1838 diprotodont marsupial
 Diprotodontia -
Sthenurus indet. Owen 1874 short-faced kangaroo
Aves
 Dromornithiformes - Dromornithidae
Genyornis indet. Stirling and Zietz 1896 bird