Upper Site: Aquitanian - Burdigalian, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Diprotodontia
- Vombatidae
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Rhizophascolonus ngangaba
Brewer et al. 2018
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Brewer et al. 2018 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
| QM F23765; QM F23764; QM F23768 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Diprotodontia
- Phascolarctidae
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Nimiokoala greystanesi
Black and Archer 1997
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3 specimens | |||||||||
| QMF30495; QMF30496; QMF30497 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Queensland |
| Coordinates: | 19.0° South, 138.7° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 30.7° South, 134.7° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Aquitanian - Burdigalian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Aquitanian - Burdigalian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 23.03 - 15.98 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | System B | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: System B is "early Miocene" based on biochronology |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Collection methods: | acetic |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Queensland Museum collection (QM)
Michael Archer reference collection (AR), University of New South Wales (possibly serving as temporary registration) | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Godthelp’s Hill, Riversleigh | ||
| Database number: | 203532 | ||
| Authorizer: | G. Lloyd | Enterer: | G. Lloyd |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2019-08-19 09:59:09 | Last modified: | 2020-08-03 12:42:41 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-08-19 09:59:09 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 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] |
Secondary references:
| 75461 | P. Brewer, M. Archer, S. Hand and G. J. Price. 2018. A new species of Miocene wombat (Marsupialia, Vombatiformes) from Riversleigh, Queensland, Australia, and implications for the evolutionary history of the Vombatidae. Palaeontologia Electronica 21.2.27A:1-48 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd] | |
| 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] |