Quinkana babarra Willis and Mackness 1996 (crocodilian)

Reptilia - Crocodylia

Full reference: P. M. A. Willis and B. S. Mackness. 1996. Quinkana babarra, a new species of ziphodont mekosuchine crocodile from the Early Pliocene Bluff Downs local fauna, northern Australia with a revision of the genus. Proceedings of The Linnean Society of New South Wales 116:143-151

Belongs to Quinkana according to P. M. A. Willis and B. S. Mackness 1996

Sister taxa: Quinkana fortirostrum, Quinkana meboldi, Quinkana timara

Type specimen: QM F23220, a maxilla. Its type locality is Dick's Mother Lode Quarry, Bluff Downs station, which is in a Zanclean fluvial-lacustrine siliciclastic in the Allingham Formation of Australia.

Ecology: carnivore

Distribution: found only at Dick's Mother Lode Quarry, Bluff Downs station

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