Also known as GC 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)
• "[...] Gag Plateau sequence (Tertiary System C) [...] considered to be middle Miocene in age (Archer et al., 1987, 1997)." (Scanlon et al., 2003)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified carbonate
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Collection methods: Queensland Museum collection (QMF)
•University of New South Wales (AR)
Primary reference: J. D. Scanlon, M. S. Y. Lee, and M. Archer. 2003. Mid-Tertiary elapid snakes (Squamata, Colubroidea) from Riversleigh, northern Australia: early steps in a continent-wide adaptive radiation. Geobios 36(5):573-601 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 154248: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 06.02.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Hydrophiinae indet. Boié 1827 sea snake 5 vertebrae (QMF 42700), 2 large, and 3 small ones, probably not from one and the same individual
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cf. Morelia sp. Gray 1842 python 1 fragment of a small (presumably juvenile) right compound bone (AR 12700), 3 vertebrae (AR 8045, 8777, 12173p), and 2 ribs (AR 6793, 8558)
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