UCR RV-8504: Late/Upper Oligocene, Australia
collected by Woodburne 1985

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Chelidae
Emydura sp. Bonaparte 1836
Gaffney 1979 12 specimens
UCMP 57253, 78229, partial skulls
Mammalia - Diprotodontia - Phascolarctidae
Perikoala robustus n. sp. Woodburne et al. 1987
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:South Australia County:Marree
Coordinates: 28.8° South, 138.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.7° South, 133.7° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Chattian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
Key time interval:Late/Upper Oligocene
Age range of interval:27.82000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Etadunna
Stratigraphy comments: More info may be given in Archer 1976
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Woodburne Collection dates:1985
Metadata
Also known as:the Mother Load, V-5762, Turtle Quarry
Database number:137260
Authorizer:J. Alroy, E. Vlachos Enterer:A. Garcia Selles, E. Vlachos
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-12-13 12:03:17 Last modified:2022-03-18 06:18:00
Access level:the public Released:2012-12-13 12:03:17
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
43054. N. S. Pledge. 1987. Kuterintja ngama, a new genus and species of primitive vombatoid marsupial from the medial Miocene Ngama local fauna of South Australia. In M. Archer (ed.), Possums and Opossums: Studies in Evolution 2:419-422 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles]

Secondary references:

83900 E. S. Gaffney. 1979. Fossil Chelid Turtles of Australia. American Museum Novitates (2681)1-17 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]