Also known as WW Site, Riversleigh
Where: Queensland, Australia (19.0° S, 138.7° E: paleocoordinates 30.7° S, 134.7° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Faunal Zone B zone, Aquitanian to Aquitanian (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• "System B" or Faunal Zone B, respectiveley, is early Miocene based on biochronology
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; limestone
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: acetic
• Queensland Museum collection (QMF)
•Michael Archer reference collection (AR), University of New South Wales (possibly serving as temporary registration)
Primary reference: K. K. Roberts, M. Archer, S. J. Hand and H. Godthelp. 2007. New genus and species of extinct Miocene ringtail possums (Marsupialia: Pseudocheiridae). American Museum Novitates 3560:1-15 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 106498: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 21.03.2011, edited by Albert Garcia Selles, Torsten Liebrecht, Mark Uhen and Grace Varnham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Wonambi barriei n. sp.6 Scanlon and Lee 2000 snake 9 well-preserved vertebrae, probably from a single indiviual (QMF 23038, holotype, a mid-trunk vertebra; 8 further vertebrae, paratypes, QMF 40194), 1 partial left maxilla (QMF 40193)
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Mammalia | |
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Ganawamaya ornata n. sp.3
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Gumardee keari n. sp.7 Travouillon et al. 2022 kangaroo Holotype: QM F19916. QM F57608; QM F19808, left dentary with p3, m1, m3–4; QM F19811, left dentary with m2–4; QM F19848, left maxilla with dP3, M1; QM F19917, right dentary with p3, m1–4; QM F20003, right dentary with m3; QM F20004, left juvenile maxilla with dP3, P3 out of its crypt, M1; QM F20299, right maxilla with M3; QM F24515, left maxilla with broken M1, M2–4; QM F31595, left maxilla with M3–4; QM F36570, right juvenile dentary with m1; QM F39856, left den- tary with p2, dp3, m1; QM F57548, left juvenile dentary with dp3, m1–2, m4; QM F57609, right dentary with broken i1, p3, m1–3;
Gumardee webbi7 Travouillon et al. 2022 kangaroo QM F40118, QM F57550; QM F19592, left maxilla with M2–3; QM F19831, left dentary with m1; QM F19933, right juvenile maxilla with P2, dP3, P3 out of its crypt, M1; QM F19989, right maxilla with M1–3; QM F20076, right dentary with m2–3; QM F20079, left dentary with p3, m1–4; QM F20110, right maxilla with M3–4; QM F57596, left P3.
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Gawinga aranaea Roberts et al. 2007 ringtail possum |