Cooper Creek (including Katipiri Waterhole (= Site 9) & Wurdulumankula): Late/Upper Pleistocene, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Pallimnarchus pollens
De Vis 1886
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Willis and Molnar 1997 | |||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Crocodyloidea | ||||||||||
| Flinders University: P25086 & 25087 (two teeth) | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Pelecaniformes
- Pelecanidae
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Pelecanus conspicillatus
Temminck 1824
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Miller 1966 | |||||||||
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Pelecanus grandiceps
De Vis 1905
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Miller 1966 | |||||||||
| synonym of Pelecanus conspicillatus | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Casuariiformes
- Casuariidae
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Dromaius sp.
Vieillot 1816
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Patterson and Rich 1987 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Diprotodontia
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Procoptodon rapha
Owen 1874
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Prideaux 2004 | |||||||||
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Sthenurus tindalei
Tedford 1966
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Prideaux 2004 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | South Australia |
| Coordinates: | 27.8° South, 140.7° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 27.8° South, 140.7° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| *Period: | Tertiary - Quaternary | *Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Katipiri | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Late Pleistocene age, between 132-108Ka (Callen and Nanson 1992; Nanson et al. 1992; Maroulis et al. 2007; Cohen et al. 2010; Heather et al. 2010) |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Malkuni Fauna | ||
| Database number: | 13319 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Hunter, M. Uhen, P. Mannion, J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Hunter, P. Mannion, M. Uhen, A. Garcia Selles |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-02-20 13:53:00 | Last modified: | 2022-04-01 08:02:31 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-02-20 13:53:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 6060. | R. A. Stirton. 1961. Cenozoic stratigraphy and vertebrate paleontology of the Tirari Desert, South Australia. Records of the South Australia Museum 14:19-61 [J. Hunter/J. Hunter/J. Hunter] |
Secondary references:
| 74923 | A. H. Miller. 1966. The fossil pelicans of Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 14(5):181-190 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 4424 | 5% 8620 | C. Patterson and P. V. Rich. 1987. The fossil history of the emus, Dromaius (Aves: Dromaiinae). Records of the South Australian Museum 25(2):85-117 [J. Hunter/J. Hunter/M. Carrano] |
| 36547 | G. J. Prideaux. 2004. Systematics and evolution of the sthenurine kangaroos. In S. W. Awramik, A. Barnosky, J. A. Doyle, M. L. Droser, P. M. Sadler (eds.), UC Publications in Geological Sciences, University of California Press 146:1-623 [G. Prideaux/G. Gully/T. Liebrecht] | |
| 46622 | P. M. A. Willis and R. E. Molnar. 1997. A review of the Plio-Pleistocene crocodilian genus Pallimnarchus. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 117:224-242 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |