Where: Queensland, Australia (27.5° S, 151.9° E: paleocoordinates 27.6° S, 151.9° E)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• post-Tertiary
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•Price et al. 2021 dated Diprotodon remains from Neds Gully on the Darling Downs, yielding an age of ~60Ka
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: W. S. Dun. 1894. Notes on the occurrence of monotreme remains in the Pliocene of New South Wales. Records of the Geological Survey of New South Wales 41:118-126 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 95863: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 03.05.2010, edited by Albert Garcia Selles, Philip Mannion, Margot Nelson, Evangelos Vlachos and Bethany Allen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Pelecomastes ampla n. gen. n. sp.1 De Vis 1897 sideneck turtle QM 1102D (lectotype), right peripheral I (De Vis 1897, pl. 7a; Gaffney 1981, fig. 14d); QM 1102A–C (paralecto- types), two peripherals and a medial costal fragment (De Vis 1897, pls. 7–8; Gaffney 1981, fig. 14).
Rheodytes devisi n. sp.4 Thomson 2000 sideneck turtle QM 16-1106A (lectotype), nuchal (Gaffney 1981, fig. 11a); QM 16-1106B (paralectotype), right costal I, almost complete (Gaffney 1981, fig. 11b; Thomson 2000, fig. 3a, b; holo- type of Rheodytes devisi); QM 16-1106C (paralectotype), distal section of a right costal I (Gaffney 1981, fig. 11c; Thomson 2000, fig. 3c; paratype of Rheodytes devisi); QM 16-1106D (paralecto- type), left partial costal of indeterminate position (Gaffney 1981, fig. 11d).
Chelymys arata n. sp.1 De Vis 1897 sideneck turtle QM 16-1099B (lectotype), a costal fragment (De Vis 1897, pl. 4c; Gaffney 1981, fig. 12b; not figured in Thomson 2000, fig. 1b!); QM 16-1099–1100 (paralectotypes), five carapa- cial fragments (De Vis 1897, pl. 4; Gaffney 1981, fig. 12).
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Pallimnarchus pollens n. gen. n. sp.2
Pallimnarchus pollens n. gen. n. sp.2 De Vis 1886 crocodilian QM F1149 - lectotype (anterior portions of both dentaries)
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Procoptodon rapha3, Procoptodon pusio3, Procoptodon oreas n. sp.3, Sthenurus andersoni3, Simosthenurus pales3, Simosthenurus antiquus3, Metasthenurus newtonae3
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"Macropus titan" = Macropus (Macropus) giganteus5, "Procoptodon goliah n. gen. n. sp." = Macropus goliah3, Protemnodon anak5
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Echidna oweni Kreft 1868 echidna | |