Neville's Garden Site: Burdigalian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Pythonidae
Morelia riversleighensis (Smith and Plane 1985)
Scanlon 2001 1 element
QMF 23130 (anterior part of small left dentary)
Reptilia - Gekkonidae
Pygopus hortulanus n. sp. Hutchinson 1997
Daza et al. 2014 1 specimen
QMF 16875, a right dentary
Mammalia - Dasyuromorphia - Dasyuridae
Barinya wangala n. gen., n. sp. Wroe 1999
Wroe 1999
Mammalia - Dasyuromorphia - Thylacinidae
Thylacinus macknessi n. gen., n. sp. Muirhead 1992
Mammalia - Diprotodontia - Phascolarctidae
Nimiokoala greystanesi n. sp. Black and Archer 1997
Black and Archer 1997 13 specimens
QMF30482; QMF30512; QMF23026; QMF24232; QMF242672; QMF24233; QMF20901; QMF29624; QMF30488; QMF30489; QMF24266; QMF24265; QMF20903
Mammalia - Diprotodontia - Thylacoleonidae
Microleo attenboroughi n. gen., n. sp. Gillespie et al. 2016
Gillespie et al. 2016 2 specimens
QM F41143; QM F42676
Mammalia - Diprotodontia - Macropodidae
Ganguroo bilamina Cooke 1997
Travouillon et al. 2014 3 specimens
QM F24190, right dentary with broken m2, m3, QM F19987, left maxilla with M1-3, QM F23202, left maxilla with M1-4
Gumardee keari Travouillon et al. 2022
Travouillon et al. 2022
QM F19881, left dentary with m1–4; QM F24223, left dentary with partial p3, m1; QM F24323, right dentary with m1–2; QM F30809, left maxilla with M1–4; QM F41273, left maxilla with P3, M1, broken M2
Gumardee webbi n. sp. Travouillon et al. 2022
Travouillon et al. 2022
Holotype: QM F57558, partial skull. QM F20701; QM F19882, left maxilla with M2–4; QM F19921, right maxilla with P3, M1–4; QM F31450, associated right dp3 and p3 cap.
Cookeroo hortusensis n. sp. Butler et al. 2016
Butler et al. 2016 9 specimens
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Hipposideridae
Hipposideros bernardsigei Hand 1997
Hand 1997 1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Queensland County:Riversleigh Station
Coordinates: 19.0° South, 138.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.8° South, 134.3° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Burdigalian
Age range of interval: 20.44 - 15.98 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Early Miocene based on Woodhead et al. (2014)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Queensland Museum palaeontological collection
Metadata
Also known as:Riversleigh
Database number:135708
Authorizer:J. Alroy, P. Mannion, G. Lloyd, R. Close, J. Mueller, P. Barrett, M. Uhen Enterer:A. Garcia Selles, T. Liebrecht, R. Close, G. Lloyd, T. Cleary, G. Varnham, M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-11-05 17:59:21 Last modified:2020-08-03 12:40:08
Access level:the public Released:2012-11-05 17:59:21
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
43030. J. Muirhead. 1992. A specialised thylacinid, Thylacinus macknessi, (Marsupialia: Thylacinidae) from Miocene deposits of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Australian Mammalogy 15:67-76 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles]

Secondary references:

69770 K. Black and M. Archer. 1997. Nimiokoala gen. nov. (Marsupialia, Phascolarctidae) from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, with a revision of Litokoala. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 41(2):209-228 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd]
59034 K. Butler, K. J. Travouillon, G. J. Price, M. Archer, and S. J. Hand. 2016. Cookeroo, a new genus of fossil kangaroo (Marsupialia, Macropodidae) from the Oligo-Miocene of Riversleigh, Northwestern Queensland, Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(3):e1083029 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
59595 J. D. Daza, A. M. Bauer, and E. D. Snively. 2014. On the fossil record of the Gekkota. The Anatomical Record 297:433-462 [P. Barrett/T. Cleary]
75452 A. K. Gillespie, M. Archer, and S. J. Hand. 2016. A tiny new marsupial lion (Marsupialia, Thylacoleonidae) from the early Miocene of Australia. Palaeontologia Electronica 19.2.26A:1-26 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd]
61034 S. Hand. 1997. Hipposideros bernardsigei, a new hipposiderid (Mammalia, Microchiroptera) from the Australian Miocene, and a reconsideration of the monophyly of related species groups. Muenchner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, Reihe A: Geologie und Palaeontologie 34:73-92 [M. Uhen/L. Craig]
73261 T. J. Myers, K. H. Black, M. Archer and S. J. Hand. 2017. The identification of Oligo-Miocene mammalian palaeocommunities from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia and an appraisal of palaeoecological techniques. PeerJ 5(e3511):1-31 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
49982 J. D. Scanlon. 2001. Montypythonoides: the Miocene snake Morelia riversleighensis (Smith & Plane, 1985) and the geographical origin of pythons. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 25:1-35 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]
80801 K. J. Travouillon, K. Butler, M. Archer and S. J. Hand. 2022. Two new species of the genus Gumardee (Marsupialia, Macropodiformes) reveal the repeated evolution of bilophodonty in kangaroos. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]
57555 K. J. Travouillon, B. N. Cooke, M. Archer and S. J. Hand. 2014. Revision of basal macropodids from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area with descriptions of new material of Ganguroo bilamina Cooke, 1997 and a new species. Palaeontologia Electronica 17(1):1-34 [R. Close/R. Close]
42946 S. Wroe. 1999. The geologically oldest dasyurid, from the Miocene of Riversleigh, North-West Queensland. Palaeontology 42(3):501-527 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles/T. Liebrecht]