Also known as TT Site, Riversleigh

Where: Queensland, Australia (19.1° S, 138.7° E: paleocoordinates 28.0° S, 135.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Faunal Zone C zone, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• Two Trees Site is currently interpreted to be middle Miocene in age (Faunal Zone C), principally on the basis of its stratigraphic position near the top of the Gag Plateau sequence (Arena, 2004). However, the Two Trees LF may be considerably younger (Archer et al., 1997), possibly even as young as Pliocene (Scanlon et al., 2003).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; bioturbated, fine-grained, red lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Queensland Museum collection (QMF)

•University of New South Wales (AR)

Primary reference: R. Pian, M. Archer, and S. J. Hand. 2013. A New, Giant Platypus, Obdurodon tharalkooschild, sp. nov. (Monotremata, Ornithorhynchidae), from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(6):1255-1259 [M. Uhen/J. David/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 151091: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Tyler Fabian on 21.09.2013, edited by Mark Uhen and Torsten Liebrecht

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