Tingamarra Local Fauna - Boat Mountain deposit (Eocene of Australia)

Also known as Murgon; Main quarry, Tingamarra Station

Where: Queensland, Australia (26.0° S, 152.0° E: paleocoordinates 47.0° S, 152.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• "...possibly a member of the Oakdale Sandstone Formation, see Salisbury & Willis, 1996)" (pg. 25) [Scanlon 1993?]

•"minimum age estimate of 54.6 +/- 0.05 x 10^6 years" based on K/Ar analysis of "clay from the mammal-bearing locality and horizon" (i.e., Main Quarry)

•material apparently from one "zone" or "horizon"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; green claystone and fine-grained sandstone

• "freshwater"
• "authigenic green illite and smectite clays with irregular dolomitized horizons and fine sandy lenses"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: H. Godthelp, M. Archer, R. Cifelli, S. J. Hand, and C. F. Gilkeson. 1992. Earliest known Australian Tertiary mammal fauna. Nature 356:514-516 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59088: authorized by Jason Head, entered by Jason Head on 12.03.2006, edited by John Alroy, Albert Garcia Selles, Philip Mannion, Richard Butler, Patricia Holroyd and Emma Dunne

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• all mammals from Main Quarry as of 1992

•numerous other groups of vertebrates are mentioned but not listed by Godthelp et al. 1992

Aves
 Neornithes -
? Coraciiformes indet.4 Forbes 1884 bird
QM F20688, carpometacarpus. QM F24685, tibiotarsus
Anseriformes indet.4 Wagler 1831 waterfowl
QM F23019, quadrate
 Anseriformes - Presbyornithidae
Murgonornis archeri n. gen. n. sp.14
Murgonornis archeri n. gen. n. sp.14 Worthy et al. 2023 waterfowl
Holotype QM F23735, dL humerus (Fig. 2A, E–G). Paratypes QM F23649, L cor, in two parts (Fig. 2I, M); QM F30291, R acrocoracoid (Fig. 2N, O); QM F20871, dL rad (Fig. 3AA), QM F30376, pL cmc (Fig. 3M–O); QM F61037, dR cmc; QM F61038, dR cmc (Fig. 3S); QM F23736, dL tib missing condylus medialis (Fig. 3G, H); QM F23737, dL tib missing condylus lateralis (Fig. 3A, I). Referred specimens QM F24447, pL manus phal. II.1; QM F20239, pR manus phal.II.2; QM F31298, pR manus phal.I.1. Tentatively referred is the slightly smaller QM F61039, R manus phal. I.1.
 Charadriiformes - Graculavidae
Graculavidae indet.3 Fürbringer 1888 shorebird
QM F23649, QM F23735, QM F 23736, QM F 23737, QM F30347, QM F20872
Reptilia
 Crocodylia -
Kambara implexidens n. sp.9, Kambara murgonensis n. gen. n. sp.13
Kambara implexidens n. sp.9 Salisbury and Willis 1996 crocodilian
QM F29662 - type (almost complete skull); paratypes: QM F29663 (partial skull), QM F21116 (right dentary) and QM F30077 (left mandible); referred material: QM F29678 (partial skull deck consisting of parietal and left squamosal), QM F21118 (anterior fragment of left dentary), QM F29664 (posterior fragment of left dentary), QM F29698 (right dentary fragment), QM F29715 (right maxillary fragment), QM F29715 (posterior fragment of left maxilla), QM F29693 (right maxillary fragment), QM F30832 (right dentary fragment), QM F29708a and QM F29708b (pair of quadrates), QM F29709 (posterior fragment of right maxilia), QM F29710 (left maxillary fragment), QM F29680 (right surangular), QM F29684 (right quadrate), QM F30299 (left dentary fragment) and QM F21131 (an anterior fragment of a right dentary)
Kambara murgonensis n. gen. n. sp.13 Willis et al. 1993 crocodilian
QM F2115 - holotype (an almost complete skull); paratypes: QM F29665 (anterior fragment of left dentary), QM F21117 (anterior fragment of left dentary), QM F21128 (frontal), QM F21123 (incomplete right surangular), QM F21130 (right quadrate), QM F21134 (left surangular), QM F21119 (posterior fragment of left dentary), QM F21120 (posterior fragment of right dentary), QM F21125 (left surangular), QM F21126 (posterior fragment of left maxilla), QM F11625 (an anterior dentary fragment); referred material: QM F29667 (partial skull deck consisting of frontal, parietal, and left and right squamosals), QM F29691 (left maxillary fragment), QM F29696 (left surangular), QM F29718 (right maxillary fragment), QM F29692 (right dentary fragment), QM F29688 (right dentary fragment), QM F29694 (anterior fragment of left maxilla), QM F29689 (right maxillary fragment), QM F29683 (posterior fragment of left quadrate), QM F29712 (posterior fragment of right quadrate), QM F30221 (posterior fragment of right surangular), QM F29669 (right dentary), QM F21125 (right surangular), QM F30220 (posterior fragment of left surangular); material updated by Salisbury & Willis (1996)
 Testudines - Pantrionychidae
Murgonemys braithwaitei n. gen. n. sp.6
Murgonemys braithwaitei n. gen. n. sp.6 White 2001 turtle
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet.5 softshell turtle
QM F2566, F2326, F2324, F9035
 Squamata - Madtsoiidae
cf. Madtsoia sp.10 Simpson 1933 snake
QMF 52167, single rib fragment from right side of trunk
Patagoniophis australiensis n. sp.10 Scanlon 2005 snake
QMF 19710 (holotype), mid-trunk vertebra; QMF 19023, 19711-16 23892, anterior trunk vertebrae; QMF 19717, 19718-20, 24395, 24468, 24471, 24749 middle trunk vertebrae; QMF 19027, 19030, 19721-26, 24391, 24393-94, 24576, 24754, posterior trunk vertebrae; QMF 19024, 19727-28, 24252, 24575a, caudal vertebrae. Provisionally referred material: F19716, 20240, 22806, vertebrae; F19032, 20824, 23285, 23894, 24464-66, 24575b, 24750, ribs; F29617, dentary
Alamitophis tingamarra n. sp.10 Scanlon 2005 snake
QMF 19729 (holotype), mid- to posterior trunk vertebra; QMF 19735, anterior trunk vertebra; QMF 19029, 19730-1, 19734, middle trunk vertebrae; QMF 20233, posterior trunk vertebra; QMF 19732-33, caudal vertebrae; QMF 19026, 19033, 20920, 23898, ribs; QMF 23893, dentary
Mammalia
 Theriamorpha -
Tingamarra porterorum n. gen. n. sp.
Tingamarra porterorum n. gen. n. sp. Godthelp et al. 1992 placental
QMF20564, isolated right lower molar, probably an M2 or M3.
 Chiroptera -
Australonycteris clarkae n. gen. n. sp.8
Australonycteris clarkae n. gen. n. sp.8 Hand et al. 1994 bat
QM F19147 - holotype. QM F19148, right P4; QM F 19149, right, edentulous dentary fragment with alveoli for i 1-3, C, p2,3,4, m1-3; QM F19150, fragment of a left periotic.
 Theriamorpha -
Archaeonothos henkgodthelpi2 Beck 2013 metatherian
QM F53825, a slightly worn M2 or M3
Djarthia murgonensis n. gen. n. sp.7 Godthelp et al. 1999 marsupial
QM F31458. Left dentary fragment with M1–3; isolated partial right and left C1; isolated P3 and P2 or P1; isolated right M1–4; left maxillary fragment with P3 and M1; and left maxillary fragment with M3 (holotype). Paratypes: Specimens QM F31459 (left dentary fragment with P2_3, M1, alveoli for M2, M3, and the trigonid of M4) and QM F31460 (right dentary fragment containing P2_3, M1_3, and the trigonid of M4). Beck et al. 2008 referred seven petrosals, three calcanea and one astragalus to this taxon
 Polydolopimorphia -
Thylacotinga bartholomaii n. gen. n. sp.11 Archer et al. 1993 metatherian
QMF 16835 - holotype (LM2); paratypes: QMF 20804 (LM 2 or 3), QMF 20803 (RM4), QMF 16836 (LM1); referred material: QMF 24120 (LM4), QMF 24194 (LM1), QMF 50407 (LM1), QMF 50408 (RM 2 or 3), QMF 50405 (LM 2 or 3), QMF 50406 (LM 2 or 3), QMF 23551 (LM 2 or 3), QMF 50409 (LM 2 or 3), QMF 24333 (LM4) and QMF 24485 (LM). Referred specimens: QMF 24120, QMF 24194, QMF 50407, QMF 50408, QMF 50405, QMF 50406, QMF 23551, QMF 50409, QMF 24333, QMF 24485
Chulpasia jimthorselli n. sp.11 Sigé et al. 2009 metatherian
QM F50411 - type (LM 1 or 2)
 Marsupialia -
Marsupialia indet.1 Illiger 1811 marsupial
QM F30060, calcaneus. Represents an 'ameridelphian’ -
Amphibia
 Salientia - Leptodactylidae
Lechriodus casca n. sp.12 Tyler and Godthelp 1993 black soled frog
QM F24824, ilium (holotype). Paratypes: QM F20197, 20216, 20243, 20565, 20567, 20689-93, 20912, 21395, 23018, 23208, 23279, 24824-28, SAM 31700, 31703-06, 31710, 33558-65