Also known as Alcoota Station, Alcoota Fossil Reserv (main pit)
Where: Northern Territory, Australia (22.9° S, 134.9° E: paleocoordinates 28.5° S, 133.1° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Waite Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• Yates and Worthy 2019: It is thought that the Alcoota Local Fauna is late Miocene in age based on stage-of-evolution correlation using diprotodontid marsupials (Stirton et al., 1967; Murray and Megirian, 1992) and that its age lies between 12 and 5 Ma, with an age of about 8 Ma seeming most likely (Megirian et al., 2010).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: Museus and Art Gallery of Northern Territory
Primary reference: P. Murray and D. Megirian. 2000. Two new genera and three new species of Thylacinidae (Marsupialia) from the Miocene of the Northern Territory, Australia. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Arl Galleries of the Northern Terrilory 16:145-162 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 135707: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Albert Garcia Selles on 05.11.2012, edited by Joshua Joo, Philip Mannion, Bethany Allen and Grace Varnham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
Dromaius arleyekweke n. sp.5
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Reptilia | |
Baru iylwenpeny n. sp.4
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Chelodina murrayi n. sp.3
Chelodina murrayi n. sp.3 Yates 2013 sideneck turtle NTM P5264 (holotype), right epiplastron; NTM P5337, peripheral, probably left peripheral 2; NTM P5369, left hyoplastron; NTM P5370, nuchal; NTM 5371, left peripheral 8; NTM 5373, peripheral, probably left peripheral 10; NTM P5374, right xiphiplastron; NTM P5375, left hypoplastron; NTM P5376, mid-series costal; NTM P5377, proximal end of right costal 7; NTM P5378, indeterminate peripheral; NTM P5409, distal end of right costal 2; NTM P9810, left hypoplastron; NTM P9892, right hypoplastron; plus many other poorly informative shell fragments that are unregistered in the NTM palaeontology collection
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Mammalia | |
Tyarrpecinus rothi n. gen. n. sp.
Tyarrpecinus rothi n. gen. n. sp. Murray and Megirian 2000 thylacine | |
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Kolopsis yperus n. sp.2
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