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
Baru darrowi6 Willis et al. 1990 crocodilian
QMF 31005, 31013 and 31185
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
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