Hines Quarry (Pleistocene of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (37.7° S, 144.4° E: paleocoordinates 38.4° S, 144.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone and conglomerate

• sands, gravels, and reworked clays, and basalt blocks

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K. J. Piper, E. M. G. Fitzgerald, and T. H. Rich. 2006. Mesozoic to early Quaternary mammal faunas of Victoria, South-East Australia. Palaeontology 49(6):1237-1262 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 70581: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 29.03.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Rodentia - Muridae
Muridae indet.
Muridae indet. Illiger 1811 mouse
 Dasyuromorphia - Dasyuridae
Sminthopsis crassicaudata
Sminthopsis crassicaudata Gould 1844 fat-tailed dunnart
 Peramelemorphia - Peramelidae
Peramelidae indet.
Peramelidae indet. Gray 1825 bandicoot
 Diprotodontia - Diprotodontidae
Diprotodon sp.
Diprotodon sp. Owen 1838 diprotodont marsupial
 Diprotodontia - Macropodidae
Macropus sp., Protemnodon roechus, Prionotemnus sp.
Macropus sp. Shaw 1790 kangaroo
Prionotemnus sp. Stirton 1955 kangaroo