Also known as Wellington Caves
Where: New South Wales, Australia (31.6° S, 148.9° E: paleocoordinates 32.3° S, 148.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. Archer and T. Flannery. 1985. Revision of the Extinct Gigantic Rat Kangaroos (Potoroidae: Marsupialia), with Description of a New Miocene Genus and Species and a New Pleistocene Species of Propleopus. Journal of Paleontology 59(6):1331-1349 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 135747: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Albert Garcia Selles on 06.11.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Mammalia | |
Propleopus wellingtonensis n. sp., Simosthenurus brachyselenis n. sp.
Propleopus wellingtonensis n. sp. Archer and Flannery 1985 diprotodont marsupial
Simosthenurus brachyselenis n. sp. Prideaux and Wells 1997 short-faced kangaroo | |