Bitesantennary Site (Miocene of Australia)

Also known as Riversleigh

Where: Queensland, Australia (18.6° S, 138.6° E: paleocoordinates 30.3° S, 134.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

• "an ancient cave fill... cut into an older, relatively non-fossiliferous limestone... the many snails of the deposit and what seem to be extensive algal-like mats suggest that, for some time period during its history, the depositional area was open to light and under water"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: "thousands of bat skulls, limb bones, and snails"

•Queensland Museum collection

Primary reference: S. J. Hand and M. Archer. 2005. A new hipposiderid genus (Microchiroptera) from an early Miocene bat community in Australia. Palaeontology 48(2):371-383 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 84865: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.11.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "Xenorhinos halli is preserved in the deposit with at least eight other hipposiderids... and a megadermatid. Lesss well represented... are frogs, lizards, a boid, a stork, a swift, peramelids, a dasyurid, and a bulungamayine macropodid"
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Mammalia
 Chiroptera - Megadermatidae
Macroderma cf. godthelpi
 Chiroptera - Hipposideridae
Rhinonycteris tedfordi, ? Brachipposideros watsoni, Brachipposideros cf. nooraleebus, Brachipposideros sp., Brevipalatus mcculloughi n. gen. n. sp., Riversleigha williamsi
Rhinonycteris tedfordi leaf-nosed bat
Brachipposideros sp. Sigé 1968 leaf-nosed bat
Brevipalatus mcculloughi n. gen. n. sp. Hand and Archer 2005 leaf-nosed bat
Riversleigha williamsi Hand 1998 leaf-nosed bat
 Chiroptera - Rhinonycteridae
Xenorhinos halli n. gen. n. sp.
Xenorhinos halli n. gen. n. sp. Hand 1998 bat
 Diprotodontia - Macropodidae
Ganguroo bilamina
Ganguroo bilamina Cooke 1997 kangaroo
 Dasyuromorphia - Dasyuridae
Barinya wangala
Barinya wangala Wroe 1999 marsupial