Australia: The Land Where Time Began

A biography of the Australian continent 

The marsupials in this deposit are recognisable as being related to the later Australian groups typical of the Cainozoic. Among these remains are those of a phalangerid, a diprotodontoid, a burramyid and a specimen that it is believed may be a dasyurid. Basalt that is at least 22 Ma overlies this site, putting to near the boundary between the Miocene and Oligocene

Sources & Further reading

1. Patricia Vickers-Rich, Thomas Hewitt Rich, Wildlife of Gondwana, Reed Australia, 1993
2. Mary E White, After the Greening, The Browning of Australia, Kangaroo Press, 1994