Last Tree Cave: Pleistocene, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Megapodiidae
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Progura campestris
Shute et al. 2017
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Shute et al. 2017 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
| WAM 05.4.21, cranial vault (figure 6a–d); WAM 05.4.17, L ulna (figure 8c,d); WAM 04.6.1, dR tarsometatarsus | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Diprotodontia
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Metasthenurus newtonae
Prideaux 2000
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Procoptodon williamsi
Prideaux 2004
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Sthenurus andersoni
Marcus 1962
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Sthenurus tindalei
Tedford 1966
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Mammalia
- Diprotodontia
- Macropodidae
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Bohra illuminata n. sp.
Prideaux and Warburton 2008
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Procoptodon goliah
(Owen 1874)
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| original and current combination Macropus goliah | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Western Australia | County: | Nullarbor Plain |
| Coordinates: | 30.9° South, 130.5° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 31.6° South, 130.2° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | WAM |
Metadata
| Database number: | 136112 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, M. Uhen, G. Lloyd | Enterer: | A. Garcia Selles, G. Lloyd, N. Visalden | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-11-19 10:12:32 | Last modified: | 2012-11-18 17:12:32 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-11-19 10:12:32 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 36547. | G. J. Prideaux. 2004. Systematics and evolution of the sthenurine kangaroos. In S. W. Awramik, A. Barnosky, J. A. Doyle, M. L. Droser, P. M. Sadler (eds.), UC Publications in Geological Sciences, University of California Press 146:1-623 [G. Prideaux/G. Gully/T. Liebrecht] |
Secondary references:
| 60896 | G. J. Prideaux and N. M. Warburton. 2008. A new Pleistocene tree-kangaroo (Diprotodontia: Macropodidae) from the Nullarbor Plain of southcentral Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(2):463-478 [M. Uhen/N. Visalden/M. Uhen] | |
| 71275 | E. Shute, G. J. Prideaux, and T. H. Worthy. 2017. Taxonomic review of the late Cenozoic megapodes (Galliformes: Megapodiidae) of Australia. Royal Society Open Science 4:170233 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd] |