Where: Queensland, Australia (18.8° S, 144.9° E: paleocoordinates 18.8° S, 144.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Wyandotte Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• The base of the Wyandotte Formation is beyond the conventional 14C range (>45000 ybp). It is inferred to postdate a 410 ka basalt flow. The rate of downcutting to form the valley is not known, but since 410,000 ybp a substantial valley has been cut. Between 4 to 10 metres of Unit A were deposited prior to unit B, which has a basal date of 30,400 ybp (+750/-700 yrs). It is reasonable to suppose that the erosive phase might easily have taken half of the available interval, a corollary of which is that the base of the Wyandotte Formation may not be much older than 200,000 ybp. The duration of the hiatus between final deposition of Unit A and the onset of Unit B is unknown.
Environment/lithology: "channel"; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: G. C. McNamara. 1990. The Wyandotte Local Fauna: A New, Dated, Pleistocene Vertebrate Fauna from Northern Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 28:285-297 [M. Uhen/N. Jones]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 194846: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.07.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Aves | |
Anhinga melanogaster Pennant 1769 oriental darter | |
Reptilia | |
Pallimnarchus sp. De Vis 1886 crocodilian | |
"Megalania prisca" = Varanus prisca
"Megalania prisca" = Varanus prisca Owen 1859 monitor lizard | |
Chelidae indet. Gray 1825 sideneck turtle | |
Mammalia | |
Rattus sp. Fischer 1803 rat | |
Macropodidae indet. Gray 1821 kangaroo | |
Bivalvia | |
Sphaerium sp. Scopoli 1777 fingernail clam | |
Velesunio sp. Iredale 1934 clam |