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 an approximate 0.1 m thick channel fill bed that is "roughly contemporary" with the overlying bone bed and radicarbon dated at 25,200 +/- 800 and 26,600 +/- 650 ybp

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; conglomeratic claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 1974, 1975, 1977

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, sieve,

• channel fill was excavated and "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 92837: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 01.12.2009, edited by Albert Garcia Selles

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