Site 50 (Pleistocene to of Australia)

Also known as Lake Victoria

Where: New South Wales, Australia (34.0° S, 141.3° E: paleocoordinates 34.0° S, 141.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Middle Pleistocene to Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Kennet G. Simpson and Edmund D. Gill in 1969

• Natural Museus Victoria (NMV)

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 135908: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Albert Garcia Selles on 12.11.2012

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Diprotodontia -
Sthenurus murrayi n. sp. Prideaux 2004 short-faced kangaroo
Sthenurus tindalei Tedford 1966 short-faced kangaroo
Sthenurus andersoni Marcus 1962 short-faced kangaroo