Lake Victoria: Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene, Australia
collected by Kennet G. Simpson and Edmund D. Gill 1969
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Diprotodontia
- Diprotodontidae
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Diprotodon sp.
Owen 1838
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Price 2008 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Diprotodontia
- Macropodidae
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Procoptodon goliah
(Owen 1874)
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original and current combination Macropus goliah | |||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Australia | State/province: | New South Wales |
Coordinates: | 34.0° South, 141.3° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 34.0° South, 141.3° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 0.77400 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Collectors: | Kennet G. Simpson and Edmund D. Gill | Collection dates: | 1969 |
Collection method comments: Natural Museus Victoria (NMV) |
Metadata
Also known as: | unnamed site | ||
Database number: | 136515 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | A. Garcia Selles |
Modifier: | A. Garcia Selles | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2012-11-29 11:57:14 | Last modified: | 2012-11-28 18:58:43 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-11-29 11:57:14 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
36547. | G. J. Prideaux. 2004. Systematics and evolution of the sthenurine kangaroos. In S. W. Awramik, A. Barnosky, J. A. Doyle, M. L. Droser, P. M. Sadler (eds.), UC Publications in Geological Sciences, University of California Press 146:1-623 [G. Prideaux/G. Gully/T. Liebrecht] |
Secondary references:
27362 | G. J. Price. 2008. Taxonomy and palaeobiology of the largest-ever marsupial, Diprotodon Owen, 1838 (Diprotodontidae, Marsupialia). Zoological Journal Linnean Society 153:369-397 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende/A. Garcia Selles] |