Ringtail Site (Miocene to of Australia)

Also known as Riversleigh

Where: Queensland, Australia (19.0° S, 138.7° E: paleocoordinates 28.0° S, 135.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Langhian to Langhian (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• Middle Miocene based on Woodhead et al. (2014)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 1985

• Queensland Museum collection

Primary reference: P. M. A. Willis. 1993. Trilophosuchus rackhami gen. et sp. nov., a new crocodilian from the early Miocene limestones of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 13(1):90-98 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92641: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 22.11.2009, edited by Mark Uhen, Albert Garcia Selles and Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

Aves
 Gruiformes - Rallidae
Rallidae indet.3 Vigors 1825 rail
QM F54524
Australlus gagensis3 Worthy and Boles 2011 rail
QM F31479
Reptilia
 Crocodylia -
Mekosuchinae indet.6 Balouet and Buffetaut 1987 crocodilian
QM F31004
Trilophosuchus rackhami n. gen. n. sp. Willis 1993 crocodilian
QMF16856 (formerly AR 14170) - holotype; referred material: QMF16857 (formerly AR 8532) and QMF16858 (formerly AR 16980)
Mekosuchus sanderi n. sp.2 Willis 2001 crocodilian
QMF 31188 - type; paratypes: QMF 36439, 31166, 31186 and 31187
Baru darrowi6 Willis et al. 1990 crocodilian
QMF 31005, 31013 and 31185
Mammalia
 Dasyuromorphia - Thylacinidae
Maximucinus murheadae n. gen. n. sp.5
Maximucinus murheadae n. gen. n. sp.5 Wroe 2001 thylacine
 Diprotodontia - Pseudocheiridae
Marlu syke n. sp.4
Marlu syke n. sp.4 Wroe 1998 ringtail possum
 Monotremata - Ornithorhynchidae
Obdurodon dicksoni n. sp.1 Archer et al. 1992 platypus