Also known as Chillagoe
Where: Queensland, Australia (17.2° S, 144.5° E: paleocoordinates 17.8° S, 144.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: cave; breccia
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Lyndsey Hawkins in 1970
Collection methods: surface (in situ)
Primary reference: R. E. Molnar. 1978. The crocodile from Tea Tree Cave and ziphodont crocodiles in Australia. Journal of Sydney Speleological Society 22(1):3-10 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 144585: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 13.05.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Macropoda indet. Illiger 1811 mammal | |
Rodentia indet. Bowdich 1821 rodent | |
Macroderma indet. Miller false vampire | |
Palorchestes sp. Owen 1874 diprotodont marsupial | |
Phascolomys sp. Illiger 1811 wombat | |
Reptilia | |
Serpentes indet. snake | |
Tiliqua sp. Gray 1825 skink | |
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Quinkana fortirostrum n. gen. n. sp.
Quinkana fortirostrum n. gen. n. sp. Molnar 1982 crocodilian |