Occurrence record: Mammalogy:M.56807.002

Preserved specimen of Trichosurus vulpecula (Kerr, 1792) | Common Brushtail Possum recorded on 2021-06-01

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Dataset

Data partner	OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource	Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
Institution code	Australian Museum Supplied institution code "AM"
Collection	Australian Museum Mammalogy Collection Supplied collection code "Mammalogy"
Catalog number	M.56807.002
Other catalog numbers	["ecatalogue.irn:10539200,urn:catalog:AM:Mammalogy:M.56807.002"]
Record type	Preserved specimen Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by	Ingleby, Dr Sandy - Australian Museum - Mammalogy
Collector	T. Venables
Associated Occurrence Status	Representative record
Associated occurrences	This record has 1 inferred associated occurrences For more information see Inferred associated occurrence details
License	CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
Degree of establishment	Road kill
Presence/Absence	PRESENT
Sampling protocol	[Road kill]
Associated records	REPRESENTATIVE
Date identified	2025-08-14

Event

Event ID	urn:australianmuseum.net.au:Events:10081830
Occurrence date	2021-06-01 Supplied date "2021-06-01/2021-06-01"
Sampling protocol	Road kill
End day of year	152
Date precision	DAY
Start day of year	152

Taxonomy

Scientific name	Trichosurus vulpecula Supplied scientific name "Trichosurus vulpecula (Kerr, 1792)"
Identified to rank	species
Common name	Common Brushtail Possum
Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Diprotodontia
Family	Phalangeridae
Genus	Trichosurus
Species	Trichosurus vulpecula
Name match metric	exactMatch
Accepted name	Trichosurus vulpecula (Kerr, 1792)
Scientific name authorship	(Kerr, 1792)
Name parse type	SCIENTIFIC
Name according to	(Kerr, 1792)

Geospatial

Country	Australia
State or Territory	New South Wales
Latitude	-33.703888 Supplied as: "-33.703888"
Longitude	150.29083 Supplied as: "150.29083"
Datum	EPSG:4326
Verbatim coordinate system	unknown
Verbatim locality	Explorers Tree
Location remarks	Australia, New South Wales, Katoomba, Explorers Tree (33° 42' 14" S, 150° 17' 27" E) 01/06/2021 - 01/06/2021, Venables, Ms Tamara - Home Handy-Tam(Collector), Venables, Ms Tamara - Home Handy-Tam(Donor), Road kill, Accession
Coordinate precision	Unknown
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres)	500.0
Terrestrial	true
Georeference remarks	Place coordinates estimated from Google Earth, and AM Map precision is lowered (Note written: 01/09/2025).
Verbatim latitude	33° 42' 14" S
Biome	TERRESTRIAL
Marine	false
Country Code	AU
Verbatim longitude	150° 17' 27" E

Additional properties

verbatim uncertainty	100m-1km

User flagged issues

Data quality tests

Test name	Result
First of the month	Warning
Geodetic datum assumed WGS84	Warning
Show/Hide 93 passed properties
Ambiguous collection	Passed
Ambiguous institution	Passed
Basis of record badly formed	Passed
Collection match fuzzy	Passed
Collection not matched	Passed
CONTINENT_COORDINATE_MISMATCH	Passed
Continent country mismatch	Passed
Continent derived from coordinates	Passed
CONTINENT_DERIVED_FROM_COUNTRY	Passed
Continent invalid	Passed
Coordinates centre of country	Passed
Supplied coordinates centre of state	Passed
Coordinate invalid	Passed
Coordinates are out of range for species	Passed
Coordinates converted to WGS84	Passed
Decimal latitude/longitude conversion failed	Passed
Coordinate reprojection suspicious	Passed
Coordinate rounded	Passed
Coordinate uncertainty meters invalid	Passed
Coordinates dont match supplied country	Passed
Country inferred from coordinates	Passed
Country invalid	Passed
Country mismatch	Passed
Different owner institution	Passed
First of the century	Passed
First of the year	Passed
Unrecognized geodetic datum	Passed
Georeferenced after occurrence date	Passed
Identified date invalid	Passed
Identified date unlikely	Passed
Identification date before occurrence date	Passed
Institution and Collection mismatch	Passed
Institution match fuzzy	Passed
Institution not matched	Passed
Interpretation error	Passed
Invalid scientific name	Passed
Location not supplied	Passed
Missing collection date	Passed
Modified date invalid	Passed
Modified date unlikely	Passed
Multimedia date invalid	Passed
Multimedia uri invalid	Passed
Name not supplied	Passed
Occurrence status inferred from basis of record	Passed
Occurrence status inferred from individual count	Passed
Occurrence status unparsable	Passed
Latitude is negated	Passed
Longitude is negated	Passed
Presumed swapped coordinate	Passed
Recorded date invalid	Passed
Recorded date mismatch	Passed
Recorded date unlikely	Passed
SCIENTIFIC_NAME_AND_ID_INCONSISTENT	Passed
Sensitivity report invalid	Passed
Sensitivity report not loadable	Passed
Coordinates dont match supplied state	Passed
Taxon affinity species	Passed
TAXON_CONCEPT_ID_NOT_FOUND	Passed
Taxon confer species	Passed
Taxon default match	Passed
Taxon error	Passed
Taxon excluded	Passed
Taxon excluded associated	Passed
Taxon homonym	Passed
Taxon indeterminate species	Passed
Taxon match aggregate	Passed
Taxon match fuzzy	Passed
Taxon match higher rank	Passed
TAXON_MATCH_NAME_AND_ID_AMBIGUOUS	Passed
Taxon match none	Passed
TAXON_MATCH_TAXON_CONCEPT_ID_IGNORED	Passed
Taxon misapplied	Passed
Taxon misapplied matched	Passed
Taxon parent child synonym	Passed
Taxon question species	Passed
Resource taxonomic scope mismatch	Passed
Taxon species plural	Passed
Coordinate precision and uncertainty transposed	Passed
Uncertainty not specified	Passed
Supplied country not recognised	Passed
Kingdom not recognised	Passed
Unrecognized collection code	Passed
Unrecognized institution code	Passed
Supplied coordinates are zero	Passed
Biosecurity issue	Passed
Suspected outlier	Passed
Geospatial issue	Passed
Habitat incorrect for species	Passed
Taxon misidentified	Passed
Taxonomic issue	Passed
Temporal issue	Passed
Other issue	Passed
Duplicate record	Passed
Show/Hide 7 missing properties
Missing geodetic datum	Missing
Missing georeferenced by	Missing
Missing georeference protocol	Missing
Missing georeference sources	Missing
Missing georeference verification status	Missing
Missing georeference date	Missing
Missing taxon rank	Missing
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Coordinate precision invalid	Unchecked (lack of data)
Footprint SRS invalid	Unchecked (lack of data)
Footprint WKT mismatch	Unchecked (lack of data)
Footprint WKT invalid	Unchecked (lack of data)
TAXON_MATCH_SCIENTIFIC_NAME_ID_IGNORED	Unchecked (lack of data)
TAXON_MATCH_TAXON_ID_IGNORED	Unchecked (lack of data)
SCIENTIFIC_NAME_ID_NOT_FOUND	Unchecked (lack of data)
TAXON_ID_NOT_FOUND	Unchecked (lack of data)
Depth value supplied in feet	Unchecked (lack of data)
Depth unlikely	Unchecked (lack of data)
Min and max depth reversed	Unchecked (lack of data)
Depth value non-numeric	Unchecked (lack of data)
Elevation unlikely	Unchecked (lack of data)
Min and max altitude reversed	Unchecked (lack of data)
Altitude value supplied in feet	Unchecked (lack of data)
Altitude value non-numeric	Unchecked (lack of data)
Type status invalid	Unchecked (lack of data)
References uri invalid	Unchecked (lack of data)
Individual count invalid	Unchecked (lack of data)
Individual count conflicts with occurrence status	Unchecked (lack of data)
Georeferenced date unlikely	Unchecked (lack of data)
Georeferenced date invalid	Unchecked (lack of data)

Inferred associated occurrence details

This record has been identified as the representative occurrence in a group of associated occurrences. This mean other records have been detected that seem to relate to this record and this particular record has the most detailed information on the occurrence. More information about the duplication detection methods and terminology in use is available here:

https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/ala-dataquality/wiki/INFERRED_DUPLICATE_RECORD

Representative Record
Record UUID	49ba719f-13f8-4d63-86f9-907430b64a46
Data Resource	Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
Raw Scientific Name	Trichosurus vulpecula (Kerr, 1792)
Coordinates	-33.703888,150.29083
Related records
Record UUID	e8a752aa-59d3-4077-b93f-b61828078e39
Data Resource	Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
Raw Scientific Name	Trichosurus vulpecula (Kerr, 1792)
Coordinates	-33.703888,150.29083

Additional political boundaries information

Area Management
GER National Corridor	GER National Corridor
Great Eastern Ranges Initiative	GER Great Eastern Ranges Initiative
IBRA (Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) Version 7 (Regions)	Sydney Basin
IBRA (Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) Version 7 (Subregions), contextual (polygon)	Wollemi
NRM Regions 2010	Hawkesbury-Nepean
NRM Regions 2017	Greater Sydney
Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023	Greater Sydney
Area management
National Landcare Program Management Units 2018	Greater Sydney
Biodiversity
IBRA 6 Regions	Sydney Basin
IBRA 7 Regions	Sydney Basin
IBRA 7 Subregions	Wollemi
Hydrology
Australian Drainage Divisions 2021	South East Coast (NSW)
Drainage Divisions Level 1	South East Coast (NSW)
Drainage Divisions Level 2	HAWKESBURY RIVER
Indigenous
Indigenous Areas 2021	Blue Mountains
Indigenous Land Use Agreements	Gundungurra Area Agreement
Indigenous Locations 2021	Katoomba
Indigenous Regions 2021	Sydney - Wollongong
RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024	New South Wales
Marine
States including coastal waters	New South Wales (including Coastal Waters)
Political
ASGS Australian States and Territories	New South Wales
Australian States and Territories	New South Wales
Commonwealth Electoral Divisions 2021	Macquarie
Electorates March 2025	Macquarie
Local Government Areas 2011	Blue Mountains (C)
Local Government Areas 2012 deprecated	Blue Mountains
Local Government Areas 2023	Blue Mountains
Local Government Areas PSMA 2018	BLUE MOUNTAINS CITY COUNCIL
NSW Local Land Services Regions	Greater Sydney
PSMA ABS Census Indigenous Language Speakers by Area - I01B (2016)	27
PSMA ABS Census Selected Person Characteristics by Indigenous Status by Area - I01A (2016)	1817
PSMA ABS Greater Capital City Statistical Areas (2016)	GREATER SYDNEY
PSMA ABS SA2 Statistical Areas (2016)	KATOOMBA - LEURA
PSMA ABS SA3 Statistical Areas (2016)	BLUE MOUNTAINS
PSMA ABS SA4 Statistical Areas (2016)	SYDNEY - OUTER WEST AND BLUE MOUNTAINS
PSMA Commonwealth Electoral Boundaries (2018)	MACQUARIE
PSMA Indigenous Areas (2016)	BLUE MOUNTAINS
PSMA Indigenous Locations (2016)	KATOOMBA
PSMA Indigenous Regions (2016)	SYDNEY - WOLLONGONG
PSMA Remoteness Areas (2016)	Major Cities of Australia
PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018)	LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
PSMA States (2016)	NEW SOUTH WALES
State Electoral Divisions 2022	Blue Mountains
World Country Boundaries	Australia
Social
Australia 2021	Australia
Destination Zones 2021	Katoomba - Leura
Greater Capital City Statistical Areas 2021	Greater Sydney
Postal Areas 2021	2780
Remoteness Areas 2021	Major Cities of Australia
States and Territories 2021	New South Wales
Statistical Areas Level 1	12401145221
Statistical Areas Level 2	Katoomba - Leura
Statistical Areas Level 3	Blue Mountains
Statistical Areas Level 4	Sydney - Outer West and Blue Mountains
Tourism Regions 2021	Blue Mountains
Vegetation
Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0	Non-Indigenous, Native forest
Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0	Eucalypt Medium Woodland
Forests of Australia 2018B	Eucalypt Medium Open
NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Groups	Eucalypt Open Forests
NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Subgroups	Eucalyptus tall open forests and open forests with ferns, herbs, sedges, rushes or wet tussock grasses
Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0	Private Freehold
Vegetation types - native	Eucalypt open forests
Vegetation types - present	cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings

Environmental sampling for this location

Biodiversity
Occurrence Density	22617.0 frequency
Species Richness	1779.0 frequency
Climate
Precipitation - annual (Bio12)	1228.0 mm
Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19)	218.0 mm
Precipitation - driest period (Bio14)	14.0 mm
Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17)	209.0 mm
Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15)	32.0 mm
Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18)	392.0 mm
Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13)	39.0 mm
Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16)	456.0 mm
Radiation - annual mean (Bio20)	16.1 MJ/m2/day
Radiation - seasonality (Bio23)	34.0
Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26)	21.5 MJ/m2/day
Temperature - annual mean (Bio01)	12.0 degrees C
Temperature - annual range (Bio07)	22.5 degrees C
Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06)	1.5 degrees C
Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11)	6.4 degrees C
Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02)	9.7 degrees C
Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09)	7.0 degrees C
Temperature - isothermality (Bio03)	0.43 %
Temperature - seasonality (Bio04)	1.53
Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05)	23.9 degrees C
Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10)	17.5 degrees C
Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08)	17.0 degrees C
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - annual	1394.0 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - coldest quarter	243.0 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - driest month	62.0 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - driest quarter	227.0 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - seasonality	32.964725 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - warmest quarter	450.0 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - wettest month	181.0 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - wettest quarter	522.0 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean	11.9 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual range	21.0 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - coldest month min	2.0 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - coldest quarter mean	6.2833333 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - diurnal range mean	9.05 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - driest quarter mean	7.116667 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - isothermality	43.095238 %
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - seasonality	441.14005
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - warmest month max	23.0 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - warmest quarter mean	17.233334 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - wettest quarter mean	16.933332 °C
WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality	43.0 %
Substrate
Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28)	0.91
Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32)	1.0
Elevation	1015.0 m

Group	Field Name	Original Value	Processed Value


Classification	Scientific name	Trichosurus vulpecula (Kerr, 1792)	Trichosurus vulpecula
	Match type		exactMatch
	Phylum id		https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/065f1da4-53cd-40b8-a396-80fa5c74dedd
	Family id		https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/d97711e4-ae91-45bf-b03c-e33e71624435
	Taxon concept ID		https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/ee2cb6a9-e17c-4ca7-8aef-76d69eb969ed
	Order	Diprotodontia	Diprotodontia
	Taxon rank id		7000
	Accepted name usage	Trichosurus vulpecula (Kerr, 1792)
	Species id		https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/ee2cb6a9-e17c-4ca7-8aef-76d69eb969ed
	Taxon identification issue	[FIRST_OF_MONTH]
	Genus	Trichosurus	Trichosurus
	Left		27645
	Scientific name authorship		(Kerr, 1792)
	Taxon rank		species
	Genus id		https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/184bffbd-2ce3-4b12-a25d-46939280c08a
	Name type		SCIENTIFIC
	Vernacular name	Common Brushtail Possum	Common Brushtail Possum
	Name according to	(Kerr, 1792)
	Order id		https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/bd223248-af12-4ce9-9380-4f9a85be38db
	Right		27657
	Kingdom	Animalia	Animalia
	Specific epithet	vulpecula
	Class id		https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/e9e7db31-04df-41fb-bd8d-e0b0f3c332d6
	Phylum	Chordata	Chordata
	Class	Mammalia	Mammalia
	Species		Trichosurus vulpecula
	Family		Phalangeridae
	Kingdom id		https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/4647863b-760d-4b59-aaa1-502c8cdf8d3c
Event	Event ID	urn:australianmuseum.net.au:Events:10081830
	Year		2021
	End day of year		152
	Month		6
	Date precision		DAY
	Start day of year		152
	Day		1
	Event date	2021-06-01/2021-06-01	2021-06-01
Identification	Date identified	2025-08-14	2025-08-14
Identification	Identified by	[Ingleby, Dr Sandy - Australian Museum - Mammalogy]
Occurrence	Associated occurrences		e8a752aa-59d3-4077-b93f-b61828078e39
	Duplication status		R
	Degree of establishment	Road kill
	Catalog number	M.56807.002
	Occurrence status		PRESENT
	Basis of record	PreservedSpecimen	PRESERVED_SPECIMEN
	Modified	2026-01-16	2026-01-16
	Collection code	Mammalogy
	Sampling protocol	[Road kill]
	Duplicate status		REPRESENTATIVE
	Institution code	AM
	Recorded by	T. Venables
	Other catalog numbers	[ecatalogue.irn:10539200,urn:catalog:AM:Mammalogy:M.56807.002]
Attribution	Data resource		Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
	Collection		Australian Museum Mammalogy Collection
	License		CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
	Data provider uid		dp20
	Provenance		Published dataset
	Data Resource ID	dr340	dr340
	Institution ID		in4
	Data partner		OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
	Institution		Australian Museum
	Data hub uid	[dh1]
	Collection ID		co80
Location	Country	Australia	Australia
	Decimal latitude	-33.703888	-33.703888
	Terrestrial	true	true
	Georeference remarks	Place coordinates estimated from Google Earth, and AM Map precision is lowered (Note written: 01/09/2025).
	Decimal longitude	150.29083	150.29083
	State province	New South Wales	New South Wales
	Verbatim locality	Explorers Tree
	Verbatim latitude	33° 42' 14" S
	Biome		TERRESTRIAL
	Coordinate uncertainty in meters	500	500.0
	Lga	Blue Mountains (C)
	Marine	false	false
	Location remarks	Australia, New South Wales, Katoomba, Explorers Tree (33° 42' 14" S, 150° 17' 27" E) 01/06/2021 - 01/06/2021, Venables, Ms Tamara - Home Handy-Tam(Collector), Venables, Ms Tamara - Home Handy-Tam(Donor), Road kill, Accession
	Country code		AU
	Verbatim longitude	150° 17' 27" E
	Verbatim coordinate system	unknown
	Geodetic datum		EPSG:4326

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