Golden Fleece, Lake Palankarinna: Zanclean, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Kalthifrons aurivellensis n. gen., n. sp.
Yates and Pledge 2017
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| SAM P35062 - holotype; referred material: SAM P35062 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Chelidae
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Elseya cf. lavarackorum
White 1994
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | South Australia |
| Coordinates: | 28.8° South, 138.4° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 31.6° South, 137.6° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Zanclean | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Zanclean | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Tirari | Member: | Mampuwordu Sand | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Megirian et al. 2010: The oldest age for the Tirarian is for the bone-bearing paleosol beneath a basalt 40K/40Ar-dated to 4.46 6 0.01 Ma near Hamilton, Victoria (Table 2). The youngest available age estimate for the Tirarian is for the Pompapillina Member of the Tirari Formation, which Tedford et al. (1992) placed near the top of the Gilbert chron, now calibrated to 3.60 Ma (Table 2, Fig. 3) (Gradstein et al. 2005). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: pale gray fluviatile channel sand | |
| Environment: | "channel" |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 182671 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-11-21 09:47:45 | Last modified: | 2022-02-11 07:17:08 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-11-21 09:47:45 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 60870. | A. M. Yates and N. S. Pledge. 2017. A Pliocene mekosuchine (Eusuchia: Crocodilia) from the Lake Eyre Basin of South Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(1):e1244540:1-15 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Holroyd] |
Secondary references:
| 79273 | D. Megirian, G. J. Prideaux, P. F. Murray and N. Smit. 2010. An Australian land mammal age biochronological scheme. Paleobiology 36(4):658-671 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham] |