Mendooran (Pleistocene of Australia)
Where: New South Wales, Australia (31.8° S, 149.1° E: paleocoordinates 32.5° S, 149.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; 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 137655: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Albert Garcia Selles on 18.12.2012
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Taxonomic list
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Mammalia | |
"Diprotodon bennettii n. sp." = Diprotodon optatum
"Diprotodon bennettii n. sp." = Diprotodon optatum Owen 1838 diprotodont marsupial |