Where: Western Australia, Australia (30.9° S, 130.5° E: paleocoordinates 31.6° S, 130.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the WAM
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 136112: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Albert Garcia Selles on 19.11.2012, edited by Nicholas Visalden and Graeme Lloyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Procoptodon williamsi Prideaux 2004 short-faced kangaroo
Metasthenurus newtonae Prideaux 2000 short-faced kangaroo
Sthenurus tindalei Tedford 1966 short-faced kangaroo
Sthenurus andersoni Marcus 1962 short-faced kangaroo | |
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"Procoptodon goliah" = Macropus goliah Owen 1874 kangaroo | |
| Aves | |
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Progura campestris2 Shute et al. 2017 megapode 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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