Ravensthorpe, Pilton (Pleistocene of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (27.9° S, 152.1° E: paleocoordinates 28.6° S, 152.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• in Pleistocene fluviatile deposits

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. J. Price. 2008. Taxonomy and palaeobiology of the largest-ever marsupial, Diprotodon Owen, 1838 (Diprotodontidae, Marsupialia). Zoological Journal Linnean Society 153:369-397 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende/A. Garcia Selles]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 137639: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Albert Garcia Selles on 18.12.2012, edited by Graeme Lloyd

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Diprotodontia - Diprotodontidae
Diprotodon sp. Owen 1838 diprotodont marsupial
Aves
 Galliformes - Megapodiidae
Progura gallinacea De Vis 1889 megapode
QM F1143, QM F1134, QM F5556, QM F5557