Where: Western Australia, Australia (34.3° S, 115.1° E: paleocoordinates 34.3° S, 115.1° 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 E. A. Le Souef in 1904; 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 136437: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Albert Garcia Selles on 28.11.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Mammalia | |
Procoptodon browneorum n. sp., Simosthenurus occidentalis n. sp.
Procoptodon browneorum n. sp. Merriless 1968 short-faced kangaroo
Simosthenurus occidentalis n. sp. Glauert 1910 short-faced kangaroo | |