Mammalon Hill: Late Oligocene, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Theropoda
- Presbyornithidae
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Wilaru prideauxi
De Pietri et al. 2016
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De Pietri et al. 2016 | 2 specimens | |||||
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Mammalia
- Diprotodontia
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Ngamaroo archeri n. gen., n. sp.
Kear and Pledge 2007
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Cooke 1999 | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Diprotodontia
- Ektopodontidae
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Ektopodon stirtoni
Pledge 1986
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4 specimens | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Diprotodontia
- Phascolarctidae
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Litokoala thurmerae n. sp.
Pledge 2010
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Pledge 2010 | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | South Australia |
| 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 |
| *Period: | Middle Tertiary - Middle Tertiary | *Epoch: | Middle Miocene - Middle Miocene |
| Key time interval: | Late Oligocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 27.82 - 23.03 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Etadunna | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Ngama Local Fauna | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray silty claystone |
| Lithology description: pale gray silty claystone | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | SAM Locality PL 7611 | ||
| Database number: | 28306 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen, J. Alroy, P. Holroyd | Enterer: | M. Uhen, P. Holroyd, A. Garcia Selles |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2003-02-06 10:09:48 | Last modified: | 2022-03-18 06:17:04 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-02-06 10:09:48 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 6878. | 5% 24600 | N. S. Pledge. 1986. A New Species Of Ektopodon (Marsupialia; Phalangeroidea) from the Miocene of South Australia. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 131:43-67 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 43242 | B. N. Cooke. 1999. Wanburoo hilarus gen. et sp. nov., a lophodont bulungamayine kangaroo (Marsuoialia: Macropodoidea: Bulungamayinae) from the Miocene deposits of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 57:239-253 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles] | |
| 61268 | V. L. De Pietri, R. P. Scofield, N. V. Zelenkov, W. E. Boles, and T. H. Worthy. 2016. The unexpected survival of an ancient lineage of anseriform birds into the Neogene of Australia: the youngest record of Presbyornithidae. Royal Society Open Science 3(150635):1-16 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/O. Alfaro] | |
| 43112 | N. S. Pledge. 2010. A new koala (Marsupialia : Phascolarctidae) from the late Oligocene Etadunna Formation, Lake Eyre Basin, South Australia. Australian Mammalogy 32:79-86 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles] |