Ringtail Site: Langhian - Serravallian, Australia
collected 1985

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Gruiformes - Rallidae
Rallidae indet. Vigors 1825
Worthy and Boles 2011
QM F54524
Australlus gagensis Worthy and Boles 2011
Worthy and Boles 2011
QM F31479
Reptilia
Mekosuchinae indet. (Balouet and Buffetaut 1987)
Yates 2017
QM F31004
Willis 2001
QMF 31005, 31013 and 31185
    = Baru darrowi Willis et al. 1990
Yates 2017
QMF 30319, 31013 and 31185
Trilophosuchus rackhami n. gen., n. sp. Willis 1993
QMF16856 (formerly AR 14170) - holotype; referred material: QMF16857 (formerly AR 8532) and QMF16858 (formerly AR 16980)
Mekosuchus sanderi n. sp. Willis 2001
Willis 2001
QMF 31188 - type; paratypes: QMF 36439, 31166, 31186 and 31187
Mammalia - Dasyuromorphia - Thylacinidae
Maximucinus murheadae n. gen., n. sp. Wroe 2001
Wroe 2001
Mammalia - Diprotodontia - Pseudocheiridae
Marlu syke n. sp. Wroe 1998
Wroe 1998
Mammalia - Monotremata - Ornithorhynchidae
Obdurodon dicksoni n. sp. Archer et al. 1992
Archer et al. 1992 12 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Queensland
Coordinates: 19.0° South, 138.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:28.0° South, 135.9° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Langhian - Serravallian
Age range of interval:15.98000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago
Age estimate:14.2 to 12.9 Ma (other)
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Middle Miocene based on Woodhead et al. (2014)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:fluvial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection dates:1985
Collection method comments: Queensland Museum collection
Metadata
Also known as:Riversleigh
Database number:92641
Authorizer:J. Alroy, P. Mannion, M. Uhen Enterer:J. Alroy, A. Garcia Selles, P. Mannion, M. Uhen
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-11-22 10:36:54 Last modified:2022-08-15 03:49:34
Access level:the public Released:2009-11-22 10:36:54
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
31220. P. M. A. Willis. 1993. Trilophosuchus rackhami gen. et sp. nov., a new crocodilian from the early Miocene limestones of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 13(1):90-98 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

32564 M. Archer, F. A. Jenkins, S. J. Hand, P. Murray, and H. Godthelp. 1992. Description of the skull and non-vestigial dentition of a Miocene platypus (Obdurodon dicksoni n. sp.) from Riversleigh, Australia, and the problem of monotreme origins. Platypus and Echidnas 15-27 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
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]
82387 J. Ristevski, V. Weisbecker, J. D. Scanlon, G. J. Price, and S. W. Salisbury. 2022. Cranial anatomy of the mekosuchine crocodylian Trilophosuchus rackhami Willis, 1993. The Anatomical Record [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
60295 P. M. A. Willis. 2001. New crocodilian material from the Miocene of Riversleigh (northwestern Queensland, Australia). In G. C. Grigg, F. Seebacher, C. E. Franklin (eds.), Crocodilian Biology and Evolution 64-74 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
73997 T. H. Worthy and W. E. Boles. 2011. Australlus, a new genus for Gallinula disneyi (Aves: Rallidae) and a description of a new species from Oligo-Miocene deposits at Riversleigh, Northwestern Queensland, Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 63:61-67 [M. Uhen/E. Herman/M. Uhen]
42945 S. Wroe. 1998. A new ‘bone-cracking’ dasyurid (marsupialia), from the Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Alcheringa 22(3):277-284 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles]
43034 S. Wroe. 2001. Maximucinus muirheadae, gen. et sp. nov. (Thylacinidae : Marsupialia), from the Miocene of Riversleigh, north-western Queensland, with estimates of body weights for fossil thylacinids. Australian Journal of Zoology 49:603-614 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles]
62494 A. M. Yates. 2017. The biochronology and palaeobiogeography of Baru (Crocodylia: Mekosuchinae) based on new specimens from the Northern Territory and Queensland, Australia. PeerJ 5:e3458:1-45 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]