Lake Tandou (Quaternary of Australia)
Where: New South Wales, Australia (32.6° S, 142.1° E: paleocoordinates 33.3° S, 141.9° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Quaternary (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• Late Quaternary
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained, gray, red sandstone
• The sandy ridge on E. side of L. Tandou appeared to consist of a central core of weakly lithified, pale grey to buff, fine sand overlain by and sharply demarcated from barely coherent, bright red, fine sand.
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. Merrilees. 1973. Fossiliferous deposits at Lake Tandou, New South Wales, Australia. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 34:177-182 [M. Uhen/J. Joo/J. Joo]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 181307: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Joshua Joo on 04.09.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Isoodon ? obesulus Shaw 1797 short-nosed bandicoot | |
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Macrotis lagotis Reid 1837 bilby | |
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Diprotodon optatum Owen 1838 diprotodont marsupial | |
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Lasiorhinus krefftii Owen 1872 northern hairy-nosed wombat | |
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Trichosurus ? vulpecula Kerr 1792 common brushtail possum | |
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Bettongia lesueur Quoy and Gaimard 1824 bettong
Bettongia penicillata Gray 1837 brush-tailed bettong | |
Macropus ? birdselli, "Macropus ? titan" = Macropus (Macropus) giganteus, Macropus ? fuliginosus, "Macropus ? ferragus" = Macropus (Macropus) ferragus, "Procoptodon goliah" = Macropus goliah, Megaleia rufa, "Macropus agilis" = Macropus (Notamacropus) agilis, Lagorchestes leporides, Lagorchestes hirsutus, Protemnodon ? brehus, Protemnodon ? anak, Onychogalea lunata, Onychogalea frfaenata
Macropus ? birdselli kangaroo
"Macropus ? titan" = Macropus (Macropus) giganteus Shaw 1790 eastern grey kangaroo
Macropus ? fuliginosus Desmarest 1817 western grey kangaroo
"Macropus ? ferragus" = Macropus (Macropus) ferragus Owen 1874 kangaroo
"Procoptodon goliah" = Macropus goliah Owen 1874 kangaroo
Megaleia rufa kangaroo
"Macropus agilis" = Macropus (Notamacropus) agilis Gould 1842 agile wallaby
Lagorchestes leporides hare-wallaby
Lagorchestes hirsutus Gould 1844 rufous hare-wallaby
Protemnodon ? brehus Owen 1874 kangaroo
Protemnodon ? anak Owen 1874 kangaroo
Onychogalea lunata nail-tailed wallaby
Onychogalea frfaenata nail-tailed wallaby | |
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Thylacinus cynocephalus Harris 1808 thylacine | |
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Dasyurus viverrinus Shaw 1800 eastern quoll
Dasyurus geoffroii Gould 1840 Western quoll
Dasycercus cristicauda Krefft 1866 mulgara
Sarcophilus laniarius Owen 1838 Tasmanian devil | |
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Rattus lutreolus rat
Leporillus conditor Surt 1848 greater stick-nest rat
Hydromys sp. Geoffroy 1804 mouse | |
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Tachyglossus aculeatus Shaw 1792 short-beaked echidna | |