Also known as Inabeyance Site, Riversleigh
Where: Queensland, Australia (19.1° S, 138.7° E: paleocoordinates 30.8° S, 134.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Faunal Zone B zone, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• All the Riversleigh site LFs are interpreted to be part of Riversleigh’s Faunal Zone B as distinguished by Archer et al. (1989, 1997), Arena (2004) and Travouillon et al. (2006, 2011), except Cadbury's Kingdom LF which is thought to be part of Faunal Zone C, but see discussion below. They are inter- preted to be early Miocene in age on the basis of biocorrelation of their contained faunas (Travouillon et al., 2006, 2011). (Travouillon et al. 2014)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; carbonate
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
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: K. J. Travouillon, B. N. Cooke, M. Archer and S. J. Hand. 2014. Revision of basal macropodids from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area with descriptions of new material of Ganguroo bilamina Cooke, 1997 and a new species. Palaeontologia Electronica 17(1):1-34 [R. Close/R. Close]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 175736: authorized by Roger Close, entered by Roger Close on 08.01.2016
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