Kalamurina (Pleistocene to of Australia)

Also known as Warburton River

Where: South Australia, Australia (27.9° S, 138.0° E: paleocoordinates 27.9° S, 138.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Katipiri Formation, Middle Pleistocene to Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported

• "The fossils are assumed to have derived from fluvial sediments that outcrop in the banks of the river at this point." (Marther et al., 2022)

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Collected by John W. Gregory in April 1902 (de Vis 1905).

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 136143: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Albert Garcia Selles on 20.11.2012, edited by Katrin Eckardt

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Accipitriformes - Accipitridae
"Taphaetus lacertosus n. gen. n. sp." = Cryptogyps lacertosus
"Taphaetus lacertosus n. gen. n. sp." = Cryptogyps lacertosus De Vis 1905 hawk
Lectotype: QM F5507, distal R humerus
Mammalia
 Diprotodontia -
Sthenurus stirlingi Wells and Tedford 1995 short-faced kangaroo
Sthenurus andersoni Marcus 1962 short-faced kangaroo