RE-EXAMINATION OF THE QUANBUN LOCAL FAUNA, A LATE CENOZOIC VERTEBRATE FAUNA FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA

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Abstract
Re-examination of a collection of fossil bones and teeth from Quanbun Station in the south-western Kimberley, Western Australia, has raised the possibility that the fossils may be Pliocene in age. If so, these bones represent the oldest described mammalian remains from Western Australia. The following taxa are present in the fauna: Phascolonus sp. cf P. gigas, Diprotodontoidea indet., Protemnodon sp. cf P. roechus, Macropus pan, cf. Osphranter and Crocodylidae indet.