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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia | |
Mekosuchinae indet.6, Baru darrowi6, Trilophosuchus rackhami n. gen. n. sp., Mekosuchus sanderi n. sp.2
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
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Mammalia | |
Maximucinus murheadae n. gen. n. sp.5
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Marlu syke n. sp.4
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Obdurodon dicksoni n. sp.1
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