North bank of the Condamine River: Early/Lower Pliocene, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Dasyuromorphia
- Dasyuridae
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Dasyurus dunmalli
Bartholomai 1971
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Wroe and Mackness 2000 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Diprotodontia
- Macropodidae
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Bohra wilkinsonorum n. sp.
Dawson 2004
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Dawson 2004 | |||||||||
| Holotype: QM F 43277 (WlLK 1349), a juvenile right maxillary fragment with P2, dP3, P3(removed from crypt,M1 and M2. | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Crocodylidae
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Crocodylidae indet.
Cuvier 1807
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| QMF30583 (left femur, showing pathological features) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Queensland |
| Coordinates: | 26.8° South, 150.7° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 29.5° South, 150.2° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Zanclean | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Chinchilla Sand | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments:
Although no direct dates have been obtained for this deposit, biocorrelation suggests the deposit is early to middle Pliocene (Tedford et al. 1992, Mackness etal.2000). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Chinchilla Rifle Range | ||
| Database number: | 144177 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion, M. Uhen | Enterer: | P. Mannion, G. Varnham, M. Nelson |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-05-01 22:28:05 | Last modified: | 2022-03-07 04:49:41 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-05-01 22:28:05 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 46621. | B. S. Mackness, J. E. Cooper, C. Wilkinson and D. Wilkinson. 2010. Palaeopathology of a crocodile femur from the Pliocene of eastern Australia. Alcheringa 34:515-521 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |
Secondary references:
| 80571 | L. Dawson. 2004. A new Pliocene tree kangaroo species (Marsupialia, Macropodinae) from the Chinchilla Local Fauna, southeastern Queensland. Alcheringa 28(1):267-273 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham] | |
| 60928 | S. Wroe and B. S. Mackness. 2000. Additional material of Dasyurus dunmalli from the Pliocene Chinchilla local fauna of Queensland and its phylogenetic implications. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 45(2):641-645 [M. Uhen/M. Nelson] |