PBDB Collection

Blast Site: Middle Miocene, Australia

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Reptilia

	Quinkana timara n. sp. Megirian 1994	Megirian 1994
	NTM P895-19 - type (right premaxilla and maxilla, and left lacrimal, prefrontal and partial jugal); paratypes: NTM P895-16 (edentulous left dentary fragment retaining four complete and two incomplete alveoli) and NTM P894-6 (anterior part of a left dentary with eight alveoli and one tooth); referred material: NTM P87115-13 and NTM P87108-24 (isolated ziphodont crowns)

	Baru darrowi n. gen., n. sp. Willis et al. 1990	Willis et al. 1990
	NTM P8695-8 - holotype (partial skull); paratype: NTM P87103-11 (left squamosal, quadrate and opisthotic of a juvenile); referred material: NTM P87103-12 (juvenile right maxilla) and NTM P8697-2 (right jugal)
Reptilia - Meiolaniidae

	Meiolania brevicollis n. sp. Megirian 1992	Megirian 1992
	NTM P87103-2 - type (right squamosal)
Reptilia - Testudines - Chelidae

	Birlimarr gaffneyi Megirian and Murray 1999	Megirian and Murray 1999	1 specimen
	P87103-53, left costal 8
Mammalia - Diprotodontia - Balbaridae

	Nambaroo bullockensis n. sp. Schwartz and Megirian 2004
Mammalia - Diprotodontia

	Balbaroo nalima Black et al. 2014	Black et al. 2014	1 specimen
	NTM P991-24
Mammalia - Dasyuromorphia - Thylacinidae

	Mutpuracinus archibaldi n. gen., n. sp. Murray and Megirian 2000	Murray and Megirian 2000
see common names

Geography

Country:	Australia	State/province:	Northern Territory
Coordinates:	17.1° South, 131.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	26.1° South, 128.2° East
Basis of coordinate:	stated in text
Geographic resolution:	small collection

Time

Period:	Neogene	Epoch:	Miocene
10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:	Middle Miocene
Age range of interval:	15.98000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Formation:

Camfield Beds

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	not reported
Environment:	terrestrial indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Size of fossils:	macrofossils

Collection methods and comments

Collection excludes:	some genera
Reason for describing collection:	taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Northern Territory Museum collection

Metadata

Also known as:	Bullock Creek
Database number:	92839
Authorizer:	J. Alroy, E. Vlachos, P. Mannion, G. Lloyd	Enterer:	J. Alroy, A. Garcia Selles, G. Lloyd, P. Mannion, E. Vlachos
Modifier:	J. Alroy	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2009-12-01 16:30:01	Last modified:	2011-03-22 01:45:26
Access level:	the public	Released:	2009-12-01 16:30:01
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

35585.

L. R. S. Schwartz and D. Megirian. 2004. A New Species of Nambaroo (Marsupialia; Macropodoidea) from the Miocene Camfield Beds of Northern Australia with Observations on the Phylogeny of the Balbarinae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24(3):668-675 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

75252		K. H. Black, K. J. Travouillon, W. Den Boer, B. P. Kear, B. N. Cooke and M. Archer. 2014. A new species of the basal "kangaroo" Balbaroo and a re-evaluation of stem macropodiform interrelationships. PLoS ONE 9:e112705. [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd]
62166		D. Megirian. 1992. Meiolania brevicollis sp. nov. (Testudines: Meiolaniidae): a new horned turtle from the Australian Miocene. Alcheringa 16(2):93-106 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
49804		D. Megirian. 1994. A new species of Quinkana Molnar (Eusuchia: Crocodylidae) from the Miocene Camfield Beds of northern Australia. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 11:145-166 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
64218		D. Megirian and P. Murray. 1999. Chelid turtles (Pleurodira, Chelidae) from the Miocene Camfield Beds, Northern Territory of Australia, with a description of a new genus and species. Beagle: Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 15:75-130 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
43033		P. Murray and D. Megirian. 2000. Two new genera and three new species of Thylacinidae (Marsupialia) from the Miocene of the Northern Territory, Australia. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Arl Galleries of the Northern Terrilory 16:145-162 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles]
46449		P. Willis, P. Murray, and D. Megirian. 1990. Baru darrowi gen. et sp. nov., a large, broad-snouted crocodyline (Eusuchia: Crocodylidae) from mid-Tertiary freshwater limestones in Northern Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 29(2):521-540 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]