Encore Site (Miocene of Australia)

Also known as Riversleigh World Heritage

Where: Queensland, Australia (19.0° S, 138.6° E: paleocoordinates 25.3° S, 136.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• post-Middle Miocene

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: T. Myers, K. Crosby, M. Archer and M. Tyler. 2001. The Encore Local Fauna, a late Miocene assemblage from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Memoirs of the Association of Australian Paleontologists 25:147-154 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 68775: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 06.02.2007, edited by Albert Garcia Selles and Torsten Liebrecht

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Osteichthyes
 Dipnoi -
Dipnoi indet. lungfish
Amphibia
 Salientia - Leptodactylidae
Leptodactylidae sp. Stirton 1953 frog
Lechriodus intergerivus Tyler 1989 black soled frog
Mammalia
 Placentalia -
Chiroptera indet. Blumenbach 1779 bat
 Chiroptera - Megadermatidae
Macroderma sp. Miller false vampire
 Theriamorpha -
Petauroidea indet. Gill 1872 marsupial
 Theriamorpha - Palorchestidae
Palorchestes sp. Owen 1874 diprotodont marsupial
Palorchestes anulus Black 1997 diprotodont marsupial
 Theriamorpha - Vombatidae
cf. Warendja sp. Hope and Wilkinson 1982 wombat
Warendja wakefieldi n. gen. n. sp.1 Hope and Wilkinson 1982 wombat
 Theriamorpha - Diprotodontidae
Neohelos sp. Stirton 1967 diprotodont marsupial
 Theriamorpha - Thylacoleonidae
Wakaleo vanderleuri Clemens and Plane 1974 diprotodont marsupial
QM F36453, a left dentary with P3, M1-3; QM F29712, a left dentary with M1; QM F36454, a left dentary with M2 and partial I1 and M1; QM F41204, a right P3; QM F57286, a left P3; QM F30384, P3 (anterior half only); QM F36281, a left M1; QM F51409, a right M2; QM F52182, a left M3; and QM F57285, a left M3.
 Theriamorpha - Pseudocheiridae
Pseudocheiridae indet. Winge 1893 ringtail possum
cf. Pseudocheirops sp. Marschie 1915 green ringtail
 Theriamorpha - Phalangeridae
Trichosurus sp. Lesson 1828 brushtail possum
 Theriamorpha - Burramyidae
Burramys brutyi Brammall and Archer 1997 pygmy possum
 Theriamorpha - Macropodidae
Ganguroo sp. Cooke 1997 kangaroo
 Theriamorpha -
Wanburoo sp. Cooke 1999 diprotodont marsupial
Wanburoo hilarus Cooke 1999 diprotodont marsupial
cf. Hadronomas sp. Woodburne 1967 short-faced kangaroo
Ekaltadeta ima Archer and Flannery 1985 killer kangaroo
Ekaltadeta jamiemulvaneyi n. sp. Wroe 1996 killer kangaroo
Yaraloidea indet. Muirhead 2000 marsupial
Ganbulanyi dadjinguli n. gen. n. sp.3 marsupial
Mayigriphus orbus Wroe 1997 marsupial
Reptilia
 Testudines -
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle
 Squamata - Madtsoiidae
Nanowana sp. Scanlon 1997 snake
5 associated vertebrae
 Squamata - Elapidae
Incongruelaps iteratus n. gen. n. sp.2
Incongruelaps iteratus n. gen. n. sp.2 Scanlon et al. 2003 sea snake
"Hydropheinae gen. et sp. nov.", 1 maxilla, 1 dentary fragment, several ribs and more than 20 vertebrae, probably all belonging to one single individual
 Squamata - Scincidae
Tiliqua cf. pusilla Shea and Hutchinson 1992 skink
Egernia sp. Gray 1838 skink
Aves
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Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird