Where: South Australia, Australia (37.8° S, 140.8° E: paleocoordinates 38.5° S, 140.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Gambier Limestone Formation, Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• Janjukian, planktonic foram zones P21-P22
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; white lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
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 136768: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Albert Garcia Selles on 04.12.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Procoptodon browneorum Merriless 1968 short-faced kangaroo
Procoptodon gilli Merriless 1965 short-faced kangaroo |