PBDB Collection

Neville's Garden Site (Miocene of Australia)

Also known as Riversleigh

Where: Queensland, Australia (19.0° S, 138.0° E: paleocoordinates 29.8° S, 134.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• Early Miocene based on Woodhead et al. (2014)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: Queensland Museum palaeontological collection

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 135708: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Albert Garcia Selles on 05.11.2012, edited by Torsten Liebrecht, Roger Close, Mark Uhen, Terri Cleary, Graeme Lloyd and Grace Varnham

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
Dasyuromorphia - Thylacinidae	Thylacinus macknessi n. gen. n. sp. Thylacinus macknessi n. gen. n. sp. Muirhead 1992 Tasmanian wolf
Dasyuromorphia - Dasyuridae	Barinya wangala n. gen. n. sp.⁹ Barinya wangala n. gen. n. sp.⁹ Wroe 1999 marsupial
Diprotodontia - Thylacoleonidae	Microleo attenboroughi n. gen. n. sp.⁴ Microleo attenboroughi n. gen. n. sp.⁴ Gillespie et al. 2016 diprotodont marsupial QM F41143; QM F42676
Diprotodontia - Phascolarctidae	Nimiokoala greystanesi n. sp.¹ Nimiokoala greystanesi n. sp.¹ Black and Archer 1997 koala QMF30482; QMF30512; QMF23026; QMF24232; QMF242672; QMF24233; QMF20901; QMF29624; QMF30488; QMF30489; QMF24266; QMF24265; QMF20903
Diprotodontia - Macropodidae	Cookeroo hortusensis n. sp.², Gumardee webbi n. sp.⁷, Gumardee keari⁷, Ganguroo bilamina⁸ Cookeroo hortusensis n. sp.² Butler et al. 2016 kangaroo Gumardee webbi n. sp.⁷ Travouillon et al. 2022 kangaroo 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. Gumardee keari⁷ Travouillon et al. 2022 kangaroo 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 Ganguroo bilamina⁸ Cooke 1997 kangaroo QM F24190, right dentary with broken m2, m3, QM F19987, left maxilla with M1-3, QM F23202, left maxilla with M1-4
Chiroptera - Hipposideridae	Hipposideros bernardsigei⁵ Hipposideros bernardsigei⁵ Hand 1997 roundleaf bat
Reptilia
Squamata - Pythonidae	Morelia riversleighensis⁶ Morelia riversleighensis⁶ Smith and Plane 1985 python QMF 23130 (anterior part of small left dentary)
Squamata - Gekkonidae	Pygopus hortulanus n. sp.³ Pygopus hortulanus n. sp.³ Hutchinson 1997 gecko QMF 16875, a right dentary

¹Black and Archer 1997; ²Butler et al. 2016; ³Daza et al. 2014; ⁴Gillespie et al. 2016; ⁵Hand 1997; ⁶Scanlon 2001; ⁷Travouillon et al. 2022; ⁸Travouillon et al. 2014; ⁹Wroe 1999