Upper Site (Miocene to of Australia)

Also known as Godthelp’s Hill, Riversleigh

Where: Queensland, Australia (19.0° S, 138.7° E: paleocoordinates 30.7° S, 134.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: System B Formation, Aquitanian to Aquitanian (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• System B is "early Miocene" based on biochronology

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; limestone

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: acetic

• Queensland Museum collection (QM)

•Michael Archer reference collection (AR), University of New South Wales (possibly serving as temporary registration)

Primary reference: K. Black and M. Archer. 1997. Nimiokoala gen. nov. (Marsupialia, Phascolarctidae) from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, with a revision of Litokoala. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 41(2):209-228 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 203532: authorized by Graeme Lloyd, entered by Graeme Lloyd on 19.08.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Diprotodontia - Vombatidae
Rhizophascolonus ngangaba Brewer et al. 2018 wombat
QM F23765; QM F23764; QM F23768
 Diprotodontia - Phascolarctidae
Nimiokoala greystanesi Black and Archer 1997 koala
QMF30495; QMF30496; QMF30497