Also known as near Smithton
Where: Tasmania, Australia (40.8° S, 145.1° E: paleocoordinates 41.5° S, 145.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: Queen Victoria Museum (QVM)
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 136224: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Albert Garcia Selles on 23.11.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Simosthenurus occidentalis Glauert 1910 short-faced kangaroo
Metasthenurus newtonae Prideaux 2000 short-faced kangaroo |