Also known as Mount Gambier
Where: South Australia, Australia (37.8° S, 140.8° E: paleocoordinates 38.5° S, 140.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Southern Australian Museum (SAM)
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 136425: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Albert Garcia Selles on 28.11.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Sthenurus andersoni Marcus 1962 short-faced kangaroo
Simosthenurus maddocki Wells and Murray 1979 short-faced kangaroo |