Also known as Darling Downs
Where: Queensland, Australia (26.8° S, 150.6° E: paleocoordinates 29.4° S, 150.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
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).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: alluvial fan; lithified, ferruginous, quartzose, calcareous sandstone and poorly lithified, silty, sandy claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: Silvaroo bila were collected by Ces and Doris Wilkinson
Primary reference: J. T. Woods. 1960. Fossiliferous fluviatile and cave deposits. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia 7:393-403 [J. Hunter/J. Hunter/J. Hunter]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 13318: authorized by John Hunter, entered by John Hunter on 20.02.2002, edited by Mark Uhen, Albert Garcia Selles, Philip Mannion and Grace Varnham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Paludirex vincenti n. gen. n. sp.9 Ristevski et al. 2020 crocodilian "Geoff Vincent specimen" - housed in the QMF museum (skull fragments)
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"Varanus dirus" = Varanus prisca5
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Mammalia | |
Pseudomys vandycki Godthelp 1989 Australian mouse | |
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