Alcoota (incl. Rochow) Locality: Late/Upper Miocene, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Charadriiformes
- Scolopacidae
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cf. Scolopax sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Worthy and Yates 2018 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Accipitriformes
- Accipitridae
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Accipitridae indet.
Viellot 1816
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| magn. Aquila audax | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Casuariiformes
- Casuariidae
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Dromaius sp.
Vieillot 1816
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Patterson and Rich 1987 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Phoenicopteriformes
- Phoenicopteridae
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Phoenicopteridae indet.
Bonaparte 1838
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Worthy and Yates 2018 | |||||||||
| Phoenicopterid magn. Phoeniconais proeses | ||||||||||
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Phoenicopterus cf. novaehollandiae
Miller 1963
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Worthy and Yates 2018 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Anseriformes
- Anatidae
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Anatidae indet.
Vigors 1825
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Worthy and Yates 2018 | |||||||||
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Awengkere magnanatis n. gen., n. sp.
Worthy and Yates 2018
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Worthy and Yates 2018 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Ciconiiformes
- Ciconiidae
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Ciconiidae indet.
Sundevall 1836
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Worthy and Yates 2018 | |||||||||
| Ciconiidae magn. Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Suliformes
- Anhingidae
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Anhinga sp.
Brisson 1760
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Worthy and Yates 2018 | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Northern Territory |
| Coordinates: | 23.7° South, 133.9° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 29.3° South, 132.0° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Late/Upper Miocene |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 11.63000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Waite |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Metadata
| Also known as: | Alcoota Fauna | ||
| Database number: | 13315 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Hunter, M. Uhen | Enterer: | J. Hunter, M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-02-20 13:37:25 | Last modified: | 2006-08-14 01:24:30 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-02-20 13:37:25 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 6056. | M. O. Woodburne. 1967. The Alcoota fauna, central Australia: an integrated paleontological and geological study. Bull. Bur. Min. Res. 87:1-187 [J. Hunter/J. Hunter/J. Hunter] |
Secondary references:
| 4424 | 5% 8620 | C. Patterson and P. V. Rich. 1987. The fossil history of the emus, Dromaius (Aves: Dromaiinae). Records of the South Australian Museum 25(2):85-117 [J. Hunter/J. Hunter/M. Carrano] |
| 74408 | T. H. Worthy and A. M. Yates. 2018. A review of the smaller birds from the late Miocene Alcoota local faunas of Australia with a description of a new anatid species. Proceedings of the 9th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, 9:221-252 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/O. Alfaro] |