Blast Site (Miocene of Australia)

Also known as Bullock Creek

Where: Northern Territory, Australia (17.1° S, 131.5° E: paleocoordinates 26.1° S, 128.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Camfield Beds Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Northern Territory Museum collection

Primary reference: L. R. S. Schwartz and D. Megirian. 2004. A New Species of Nambaroo (Marsupialia; Macropodoidea) from the Miocene Camfield Beds of Northern Australia with Observations on the Phylogeny of the Balbarinae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24(3):668-675 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92839: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 01.12.2009, edited by Albert Garcia Selles, Philip Mannion, Evangelos Vlachos and Graeme Lloyd

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Crocodylia -
Quinkana timara n. sp.3, Baru darrowi n. gen. n. sp.6
Quinkana timara n. sp.3 Megirian 1994 crocodilian
NTM P895-19 - type (right premaxilla and maxilla, and left lacrimal, prefrontal and partial jugal); paratypes: NTM P895-16 (edentulous left dentary fragment retaining four complete and two incomplete alveoli) and NTM P894-6 (anterior part of a left dentary with eight alveoli and one tooth); referred material: NTM P87115-13 and NTM P87108-24 (isolated ziphodont crowns)
Baru darrowi n. gen. n. sp.6 Willis et al. 1990 crocodilian
NTM P8695-8 - holotype (partial skull); paratype: NTM P87103-11 (left squamosal, quadrate and opisthotic of a juvenile); referred material: NTM P87103-12 (juvenile right maxilla) and NTM P8697-2 (right jugal)
 Testudinata - Meiolaniidae
Meiolania brevicollis n. sp.2 Megirian 1992 turtle
NTM P87103-2 - type (right squamosal)
 Testudines - Chelidae
Birlimarr gaffneyi4 Megirian and Murray 1999 sideneck turtle
P87103-53, left costal 8
Mammalia
 Dasyuromorphia - Thylacinidae
Mutpuracinus archibaldi n. gen. n. sp.5
Mutpuracinus archibaldi n. gen. n. sp.5 Murray and Megirian 2000 thylacine
 Diprotodontia -
Balbaroo nalima1 Black et al. 2014 diprotodont marsupial
NTM P991-24
 Diprotodontia - Balbaridae
Nambaroo bullockensis n. sp. Schwartz and Megirian 2004 diprotodont marsupial