Where: South Australia, Australia (31.1° S, 140.2° E: paleocoordinates 46.0° S, 136.1° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Zone B Member (Namba Formation), Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)
• The accepted age for the Namba formation has varied from late Oligocene-early Miocene. Woodburne et al. 1994 suggested a late Oligocene age for the correlated faunas of Zone A in the Etadunna Formation. Martin 1990 also suggested that an early Miocene age was unlikely based on pollen data. Megirian et al. 2010 also used a late Oligocene age of 28-24Ma for the Namba Formation.
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: South Australian Museum (SAM)
Primary reference: N. S. Pledge. 2003. A New Species of Muramura Pledge (Wynyardiidae: Marsupialia) from the Middle Tertiary of the Callabonna Basin, Northeastern South Australia. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. American Museum of Natural History 279:541-555 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 136796: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Albert Garcia Selles on 04.12.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Muramura pinpensis n. sp.
Muramura pinpensis n. sp. Pledge 2003 diprotodont marsupial |