Also known as COA2A 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, Langhian to Langhian (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• Locality is listed among "C+ Sites" (meaning "System C"-aged and/or younger) in Scanlon (1996). "2A" refers to the level within the fissure fill.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fissure fill; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: QMF = Queensland Museum
Primary reference: J. D. Scanlon. 2001. Montypythonoides: the Miocene snake Morelia riversleighensis (Smith & Plane, 1985) and the geographical origin of pythons. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 25:1-35 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 154250: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 06.02.2014, edited by Roger Close
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Wakaleo oldfieldi Clemens and Plane 1974 diprotodont marsupial QM F20895, left dentary with P3, M1‒3 and alveoli for I1 and a single-rooted tooth anterior to P3; QM F36437, right dentary fragment with M3; QM F20304, left den- tary fragment with M1; QM F31295, left M1; QM F31398, right M2; QM F31294, left M3.
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