Tea Tree Cave (Pleistocene of Australia)

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

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Prensiculantia - Macropoda
Macropoda indet. Illiger 1811 mammal
 Placentalia -
Rodentia indet. Bowdich 1821 rodent
 Chiroptera - Megadermatidae
Macroderma indet. Miller false vampire
 Theriamorpha - Palorchestidae
Palorchestes sp. Owen 1874 diprotodont marsupial
 Theriamorpha - Vombatidae
Phascolomys sp. Illiger 1811 wombat
Reptilia
 Serpentes -
 Squamata - Scincidae
Tiliqua sp. Gray 1825 skink
 Squamata - Varanidae
Varanus sp. Merrem 1820 monitor lizard
"goanna"
 Crocodylia -
Quinkana fortirostrum n. gen. n. sp.
Quinkana fortirostrum n. gen. n. sp. Molnar 1982 crocodilian