Also known as Riversleigh World Heritage
Where: Queensland, Australia (19.0° S, 138.6° E: paleocoordinates 25.3° S, 136.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
• post-Middle Miocene
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Primary reference: T. Myers, K. Crosby, M. Archer and M. Tyler. 2001. The Encore Local Fauna, a late Miocene assemblage from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Memoirs of the Association of Australian Paleontologists 25:147-154 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 68775: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 06.02.2007, edited by Albert Garcia Selles and Torsten Liebrecht
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Osteichthyes | |
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Dipnoi indet. lungfish | |
| Mammalia | |
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Chiroptera indet. Blumenbach 1779 bat | |
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Macroderma sp. Miller false vampire | |
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Yaraloidea indet. Muirhead 2000 marsupial | |
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Mayigriphus orbus Wroe 1997 marsupial | |
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Ganguroo sp. Cooke 1997 kangaroo | |
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Burramys brutyi Brammall and Archer 1997 pygmy possum | |
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Trichosurus sp. Lesson 1828 brushtail possum | |
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Neohelos sp. Stirton 1967 diprotodont marsupial | |
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cf. Warendja sp. Hope and Wilkinson 1982 wombat | |
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Palorchestes sp. Owen 1874 diprotodont marsupial
Palorchestes anulus Black 1997 diprotodont marsupial | |
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Wakaleo vanderleuri Clemens and Plane 1974 diprotodont marsupial QM F36453, a left dentary with P3, M1-3; QM F29712, a left dentary with M1; QM F36454, a left dentary with M2 and partial I1 and M1; QM F41204, a right P3; QM F57286, a left P3; QM F30384, P3 (anterior half only); QM F36281, a left M1; QM F51409, a right M2; QM F52182, a left M3; and QM F57285, a left M3.
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Wanburoo sp., Wanburoo hilarus, cf. Hadronomas sp., Ekaltadeta jamiemulvaneyi n. sp., Ekaltadeta ima
Wanburoo sp. Cooke 1999 diprotodont marsupial
Wanburoo hilarus Cooke 1999 diprotodont marsupial
cf. Hadronomas sp. Woodburne 1967 short-faced kangaroo
Ekaltadeta jamiemulvaneyi n. sp. Wroe 1996 killer kangaroo
Ekaltadeta ima Archer and Flannery 1985 killer kangaroo | |
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Pseudocheiridae indet. Winge 1893 ringtail possum
cf. Pseudocheirops sp. Marschie 1915 green ringtail | |
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Petauroidea indet. Gill 1872 marsupial | |
| Reptilia | |
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle | |
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Incongruelaps iteratus n. gen. n. sp.2
Incongruelaps iteratus n. gen. n. sp.2 Scanlon et al. 2003 sea snake "Hydropheinae gen. et sp. nov.", 1 maxilla, 1 dentary fragment, several ribs and more than 20 vertebrae, probably all belonging to one single individual
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Tiliqua cf. pusilla Shea and Hutchinson 1992 skink
Egernia sp. Gray 1838 skink | |
| Aves | |
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Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird | |
| Amphibia | |
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Leptodactylidae sp. Stirton 1953 frog
Lechriodus intergerivus Tyler 1989 black soled frog | |
| Gastropoda | |
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |