Also known as west side of Lake Pitikanta
Where: South Australia, Australia (28.3° S, 138.3° E: paleocoordinates 43.3° S, 133.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Unit 2 Member (Etadunna Formation), Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Collected by R.A. Stirton and R.H. Tedford in 1961
Primary reference: B. Rauscher. 1987. Priscileo pitikantensis, a new genus and species of thylacoleonid marsupial (Marsupialia: Thylacoleonidae) from the Miocene Etaduma formation, South Australia. In M. Archer (ed.), Possums and Opossums: Studies in Evolution 2:423-432 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 137261: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Albert Garcia Selles on 13.12.2012, edited by Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Priscileo pitikantensis n. gen. n. sp." = Wakaleo pitikantensis
"Priscileo pitikantensis n. gen. n. sp." = Wakaleo pitikantensis Rauscher 1987 diprotodont marsupial | |
Reptilia | |
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