Site QML1311: Middle Pleistocene, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Diprotodontia
- Phascolarctidae
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Invictokoala monticola n. gen., n. sp.
Price and Hocknull 2011
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Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Queensland | County: | Mount Etna |
| Coordinates: | 23.2° South, 150.5° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 23.8° South, 150.3° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Chibanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Middle Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.77400 - 0.12900 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 326 ± 22 to 205 Ka (U/Th) |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | conglomeratic "limestone" |
| Secondary lithology: | claystone |
| Environment: | fissure fill |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | UQ |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Unit "C/D", Speaking Tube Cave | ||
| Database number: | 136792 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | A. Garcia Selles | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-12-04 13:00:42 | Last modified: | 2012-12-03 20:00:42 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-12-04 13:00:42 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 43110. | G. J. Price and S. A. Hocknull. 2011. Invictokoala monticola gen. et sp. nov. (Phascolarctidae, Marsupialia), a Pleistocene plesiomorphic koala holdover from Oligocene ancestors. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 9(2):327-335 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles] |