Where: Victoria, Australia (37.3° S, 144.7° E: paleocoordinates 37.3° S, 144.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• "3.5 m of an alluvial clay overlying Pliocene basalts" including a "~ 0.2-m-thick bone bed"; radiocarbon dates from the bone bed range from 8775 +/- 260 ybp (which is regarded as a low minimum) to 19,800 +/- 450 ybp (the only date regarded as accurate), but the "roughly contemporary" underlying channel fill is dated at 25,200 +/- 800 and 26,600 +/- 650 ybp

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; paleosol/pedogenic, shelly/skeletal, black, green, conglomeratic claystone

Size class: macrofossils

• "Some of the bones... show the toothmarks" of Thylacoleo and "a large quartzite blade... was found firmly embedded in the bone bed"

Preservation: original phosphate

Collected in 1974, 1975, 1977

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, sieve,

• "The 1975 excavation of 5 m2 yielded some 3000 bones, representing a minimum number of individuals of 72 for all species" with 90% being Macropus titan, 7% being Protemnodon, and all other species accounting for < 1%; excavated sediment was apparently screened

Primary reference: R. Gillespie, D. R. Horton, P. Ladd, P. G. Macumber, T. H. Rich, R. Thorne, and R. V. S. Wright. 1978. Lancefield swamp and the extinction of the Australian megafauna. Science 200:1044-1048 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92836: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 01.12.2009

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