Grange Burn: Neogene, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Diprotodontia - Burramyidae
Burramys sp. Broom 1896
Mammalia - Diprotodontia - Macropodidae
Dorcopsis sp. Schlegel and Müller 1845
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Victoria
Coordinates: 37.8° South, 142.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.1° South, 140.3° East
Time
Period:Neogene
Key time interval:Neogene
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 2.58800 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified calcareous siltstone
Secondary lithology: unlithified calcareous sandstone
Environment:cave
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:182922
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:N. Jones, C. Peredo
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-11-28 21:06:30 Last modified:2016-11-28 21:06:30
Access level:the public Released:2016-11-28 21:06:30
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

61030. M. K. Macphail. 1996. Neogene environments in Australia, 1: re-evaluation of microfloras associated with important Early Pliocene marsupial remains at Grange Burn, southwest Victoria. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 92:307-328 [M. Uhen/N. Jones/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

61651 F. Chapman and G. B. Pritchard. 1904. Fossil fish remains from the Tertiaries of Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 17:267-297 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen]