Also known as Hiatus A Local Fauna, Riversleigh; Queensland Museum Locality 941

Where: Queensland, Australia (19.1° S, 138.7° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 33.1° S, 140.0° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Faunal Zone A zone, Carl Creek Limestone Formation, Chattian (27.3 - 23.0 Ma)

• The Hiatus Site is listed among "System A"-aged sites in Travouillon et al. (2006, Alcheringia, 30, Suppl. 1, 323-349).

•The suboptimal stratigraphic nomenclature of Archer et al. (1997, Mém. Trav. École Prat. Hautes Études Inst. Montpellier, 21, 131–152) is replaced by a concept of faunal zones by Arena (2004, PhD thesis, Uviv. New South Wales, Sydney), confirmed by Travouillon et al. (2006). Faunal Zones A, B, C are identical to "Systems" A, B, C of Archer et al. (1997). Faunal Zone A is Late Oligocene in age.

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•Megirian et al. 2010: The Carl Creek Limestone produces distinctly Wipajirian and distinctly Camfieldian assemblages plus a suite of species that apparently ranged locally across the Wipajirian/Camfieldian boundary (Wipajirian–Camfieldian estimated to span ~24.9–12 Ma).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; carbonate

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 2002

Collection methods: acetic,

• "Riversleigh fossils are rarely articulated but usually undistorted, can be completely freed from matrix with acid [...]" (Scanlon, 2006).

•QMF = paleontology collections of Queensland Museum

Primary reference: J. D. Scanlon. 2006. Skull of the large non-macrostomatan snake Yurlunggur from the Australian Oligo-Miocene. Nature 439:839-842 [J. Head/J. Head]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 134945: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 19.10.2012, edited by Albert Garcia Selles, Philip Mannion, Mark Uhen and Grace Varnham

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