Chinchilla Riffle Range: Early/Lower Pliocene, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
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Pseudomys vandycki
Godthelp 1989
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Diprotodontia
- Macropodidae
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Macropus (Osphranter) woodsi n. sp.
Bartholomai 1975
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Bartholomai 1975 | 18 specimens | ||||||||
| recombined as Macropus woodsi | ||||||||||
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Silvaroo bila n. gen., n. sp.
Dawson 2004
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Dawson 2004 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Diprotodontia
- Diprotodontidae
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Diprotodon sp.
Owen 1838
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Price 2008 | |||||||||
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Euowenia grata
De Vis 1891
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Camens and Wells 2010 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Diprotodontia
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Sthenurus andersoni
Marcus 1962
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Prideaux 2004 | |||||||||
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Sthenurus notabilis n. sp.
Bartholomai 1963
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Prideaux 2004 | |||||||||
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Simosthenurus antiquus n. sp.
Bartholomai 1963
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Prideaux 2004 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Dasyuromorphia
- Dasyuridae
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Dasyurus dunmalli
Bartholomai 1971
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Archer 1982 | |||||||||
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Archerium chinchillaensis n. gen., n. sp.
Wroe and Mackness 2000
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Wroe and Mackness 2000 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Peramelemorphia
- Peramelidae
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Perameles wilkinsonorum
Travouillon et al. 2017
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Travouillon et al. 2017 | 6 specimens | ||||||||
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Reptilia
- Varanidae
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Varanus dirus
de Vis 1889
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de Fejérváry 1918 | |||||||||
| synonym of Varanus prisca | ||||||||||
| maxilla fragment | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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? Paludirex informal sp. nov.
Ristevski et al. 2020
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Ristevski et al. 2020 | |||||||||
| QMF1154 | ||||||||||
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Pallimnarchus pollens
De Vis 1886
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Willis and Molnar 1997 | |||||||||
| "Geoff Vincent specimen" - housed in the QMF museum (skull fragments) | ||||||||||
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= Paludirex vincenti n. gen., n. sp.
Ristevski et al. 2020
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Ristevski et al. 2020 | |||||||||
| CMC2019-010 + QMF59017 - holotype (partial skull) | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Casuariiformes
- Casuariidae
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Dromaius novaehollandiae
(Latham 1790)
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Patterson and Rich 1987 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Queensland | County: | Darling Downs |
| Coordinates: | 26.8° South, 150.6° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 29.4° South, 150.2° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Zanclean | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Early/Lower Pliocene - Middle Pliocene |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Chinchilla Sand | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Although no direct dates have been obtained for this deposit, biocorrelation suggests the deposit is early to middle Pliocene (Tedford et al. 1992, Mackness et al. 2000). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | ferruginous,quartzose lithified calcareous sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | poorly lithified silty,sandy claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: The Chinchilla Sand includes well-lithified calcareous sandstones grading into siltstone and conglomerate (quartz and ferruginous sandstone), and weakly consolidated sands that grade into silt and sandy clay. Such sediments were derived from erosion of the Orallo Formation and its lateritized profiles (Bartholomai & Woods, 1976). | |
| Environment: | alluvial fan |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Collection method comments: Silvaroo bila were collected by Ces and Doris Wilkinson | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Darling Downs | ||
| Database number: | 13318 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Hunter, P. Mannion, J. Alroy, M. Uhen, J. Head | Enterer: | J. Hunter, M. Uhen, P. Mannion, G. Varnham, A. Garcia Selles |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-02-20 13:48:34 | Last modified: | 2022-03-07 04:50:29 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-02-20 13:48:34 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 6059. | J. T. Woods. 1960. Fossiliferous fluviatile and cave deposits. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia 7:393-403 [J. Hunter/J. Hunter/J. Hunter] |
Secondary references:
| 42968 | M. Archer. 1982. Review of the dasyurid (Marsupialia) fossil record, integration of data bearing on phylogenetic interpretation, and suprageneric classification. In M. Archer (ed.), Carnivorous Marsuliaps 2:397-443 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles] | |
| 7767 | 5% 35060 | A. Bartholomai. 1975. The genus Macropus Shaw (Marsupialia: Macropodidae) in the upper Cainozoic deposits of Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 17(2):195-235 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
| 43170 | A. B. Camens and R. T. Wells. 2010. Palaeobiology of Euowenia grata (Marsupialia: Diprotodontinae) and its Presence in Northern South Australia. Journal of Mammal Evolution 17:3-19 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles] | |
| 43257 | L. R. S. Dawson. 2004. A new fossil genus of forest wallaby (Marsupialia, Macropodinae) and a review of Protemnodon from eastern Australia and New Guinea. Alcheringa 28(1):275-290 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles] | |
| 83764 | G. J. de Fejérváry. 1918. Contributions to a Monography on fossil Varanidae and on Megalanidae. In G. Horváth (ed.), Annales historico-naturales Musei nationalis hungarici 16:341-467 [J. Head/G. Varnham/P. Mannion] | |
| 4424 | 5% 8620 | C. Patterson and P. V. Rich. 1987. The fossil history of the emus, Dromaius (Aves: Dromaiinae). Records of the South Australian Museum 25(2):85-117 [J. Hunter/J. Hunter/M. Carrano] |
| 27362 | G. J. Price. 2008. Taxonomy and palaeobiology of the largest-ever marsupial, Diprotodon Owen, 1838 (Diprotodontidae, Marsupialia). Zoological Journal Linnean Society 153:369-397 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende/A. Garcia Selles] | |
| 36547 | G. J. Prideaux. 2004. Systematics and evolution of the sthenurine kangaroos. In S. W. Awramik, A. Barnosky, J. A. Doyle, M. L. Droser, P. M. Sadler (eds.), UC Publications in Geological Sciences, University of California Press 146:1-623 [G. Prideaux/G. Gully/T. Liebrecht] | |
| 74896 | J. Ristevski, A. M. Yates, G. J. Price, R. E. Molnar, V. Weisbecker and S. W. Salisbury. 2020. Australia’s prehistoric ‘swamp king’: revision of the Plio-Pleistocene crocodylian genus Pallimnarchus de Vis, 1886. PeerJ 8:e10466:1-98 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
| 63912 | K. J. Travouillon, J. Louys, G. J. Price, M. Archer, S. J. Hand and J. Muirhead. 2017. A review of the Pliocene bandicoots of Australia, and descriptions of new genus and species. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(5):e1360894 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 46622 | P. M. A. Willis and R. E. Molnar. 1997. A review of the Plio-Pleistocene crocodilian genus Pallimnarchus. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 117:224-242 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
| 42943 | S. Wroe and B. S. Mackness. 2000. A new genus and species of dasyurid from the Pliocene Chinchilla Local Fauna of south-eastern Queensland. Alcheringa 24(4):319-326 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles] |