Where: Queensland, Australia (26.8° S, 150.6° E: paleocoordinates 29.4° S, 150.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Chinchilla Sand Formation, Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• Although no direct dates have been obtained for this deposit, biocorrelation suggests the deposit is early to middle Pliocene (Tedford et al. 1992, Mackness et al. 2000).

Environment/lithology: alluvial fan; lithified, ferruginous, quartzose, calcareous sandstone and poorly lithified, silty, sandy claystone

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: Silvaroo bila were collected by Ces and Doris Wilkinson

Primary reference: G. J. Price, J.-X. Zhao, Y.-X. Feng and S. A. Hocknull. 2009. New Records of Plio-Pleistocene Koalas from Australia: Palaeoecological and Taxonomic Implications. Records of the Australian Museum 61:39-48 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 136787: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Albert Garcia Selles on 04.12.2012, edited by Graeme Lloyd

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