Wednesday 22 November 2017

Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh / Naracoorte).


Australia is regarded as the most biologically distinctive continent in the world, an outcome of its almost total isolation for 35 million years following separation from Antarctica. Only two of its seven orders of singularly distinctive marsupial mammals have ever been recorded elsewhere. Two of the world’s most important fossil sites, Riversleigh and Naracoorte, located in the north and south of Australia respectively, provide a superb fossil record of the evolution of this exceptional mammal fauna. This serial property provides outstanding, and in many cases unique, examples of mammal assemblages during the last 30 million years.
Glad to receive this beautiful card from Helen and thank you very much.
Date of Inscription: 1994
Ref: 698
2012 Stamp- Agriculture - Farming Australia
On the Postage Prepaid card.

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