{"id":985,"date":"2023-05-30T16:04:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T06:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/?page_id=985"},"modified":"2023-05-30T16:04:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T06:34:14","slug":"warrnambool-thylacoleo-moving-across-a-dune","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/fossils\/trace-fossils\/thylacoleonidae\/warrnambool-thylacoleo-moving-across-a-dune\/","title":{"rendered":"Warrnambool Thylacoleo moving across a dune"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1><em>Thylacoleo carnifex<\/em><\/h1>\n<h2>marsupial &#8216;lion&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>This was one of the first Thylacoleo trackways ever discovered and records an individual moving across a dune. Although the trackways in aeolianites often deteriorate quickly after initial exposure, one of the freshly-exposed impressions in this trackway preserves all five digits of the manus, including the large, semi-opposable thumb.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Skeletal element:<\/strong> Trackway<br \/>\n<strong>Specimen number:<\/strong> FU2801<br \/>\n<strong>Significance of specimen:<\/strong> Only <em>Thylacoleo\u00a0<\/em>trackway with clear thumb impression<br \/>\n<strong>Geological age:<\/strong> Late Pleistocene, Bridgewater Formation<br \/>\n<strong>State\/territory:<\/strong> Victoria<br \/>\n<strong>Locality\/site:<\/strong> Thunder Point, Warrnambool[\/vc_column_text][vc_raw_html]JTNDaWZyYW1lJTIwc3JjJTNEJTIyaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZ3d3cubW9ycGhvc291cmNlLm9yZyUyRnV2Lmh0bWwlMjMlM0ZtYW5pZmVzdCUzRCUyRm1hbmlmZXN0cyUyRmFmNzUwOTdlLWY2M2UtNGFhNS1hNmNiLTQ4NmZkZTVmMzJhMSUyMiUyMHdpZHRoJTNEJTIyNTYwJTIyJTIwaGVpZ2h0JTNEJTIyNDIwJTIyJTIwYWxsb3dmdWxsc2NyZWVuJTIwZnJhbWVib3JkZXIlM0QlMjIwJTIyJTNFJTNDJTJGaWZyYW1lJTNF[\/vc_raw_html][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=&#8221;986&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221;][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] Thylacoleo carnifex marsupial &#8216;lion&#8217; This was one of the first Thylacoleo trackways ever discovered and records an individual moving across a dune. Although the trackways in aeolianites often deteriorate quickly after initial exposure, one of the freshly-exposed impressions in this trackway preserves all five digits of the manus, including the large, semi-opposable thumb. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"parent":783,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-985","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/985\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}