Steve's Site, Lake Palankarinna (Oligocene of Australia)

Also known as RV-8447

Where: South Australia, Australia (28.8° S, 138.4° E: paleocoordinates 43.7° S, 133.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Etadunna Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• More info may be given in Archer 1976

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; sandy claystone and argillaceous siltstone

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: sieve,

Primary reference: M. O. Woodburne, N. S. Pledge, and M. Archer. 1987. The Miralinidae, a new family and two new species of phalangeroids marsupials from Miocene strata of South Australia. In M. Archer (ed.), Possums and Opossums: Studies in Evolution 2:581-602 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 137265: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Albert Garcia Selles on 13.12.2012, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Diprotodontia - Miralinidae
Miralina doylei n. sp. Woodburne et al. 1987 diprotodont marsupial
Aves
 Charadriiformes - Pedionomidae
Oligonomus milleri n. sp. De Pietri et al. 2015 shorebird