Also known as Riversleigh
Where: Queensland, Australia (19.0° S, 138.0° E: paleocoordinates 29.8° S, 134.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• Early Miocene based on Woodhead et al. (2014)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: Queensland Museum palaeontological collection
Primary reference: J. Muirhead. 1992. A specialised thylacinid, Thylacinus macknessi, (Marsupialia: Thylacinidae) from Miocene deposits of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Australian Mammalogy 15:67-76 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 135708: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Albert Garcia Selles on 05.11.2012, edited by Torsten Liebrecht, Roger Close, Mark Uhen, Terri Cleary, Graeme Lloyd and Grace Varnham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Thylacinus macknessi n. gen. n. sp.
Thylacinus macknessi n. gen. n. sp. Muirhead 1992 Tasmanian wolf | |
Barinya wangala n. gen. n. sp.9
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Ganguroo bilamina8 Cooke 1997 kangaroo QM F24190, right dentary with broken m2, m3, QM F19987, left maxilla with M1-3, QM F23202, left maxilla with M1-4
Gumardee webbi n. sp.7 Travouillon et al. 2022 kangaroo Holotype: QM F57558, partial skull. QM F20701; QM F19882, left maxilla with M2–4; QM F19921, right maxilla with P3, M1–4; QM F31450, associated right dp3 and p3 cap.
Gumardee keari7 Travouillon et al. 2022 kangaroo QM F19881, left dentary with m1–4; QM F24223, left dentary with partial p3, m1; QM F24323, right dentary with m1–2; QM F30809, left maxilla with M1–4; QM F41273, left maxilla with P3, M1, broken M2
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Nimiokoala greystanesi n. sp.1
Nimiokoala greystanesi n. sp.1 Black and Archer 1997 koala QMF30482; QMF30512; QMF23026; QMF24232; QMF242672; QMF24233; QMF20901; QMF29624; QMF30488; QMF30489; QMF24266; QMF24265; QMF20903
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Microleo attenboroughi n. gen. n. sp.4
Microleo attenboroughi n. gen. n. sp.4 Gillespie et al. 2016 diprotodont marsupial QM F41143; QM F42676
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Reptilia | |
Pygopus hortulanus n. sp.3
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Morelia riversleighensis6 Smith and Plane 1985 python QMF 23130 (anterior part of small left dentary)
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