Encore Site: Tortonian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Sphenomorphous sp.
Dipnoi
Dipnoi indet. Müller 1884
Mammalia - Chiroptera
Chiroptera indet. Blumenbach 1779
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Megadermatidae
Macroderma sp. Miller
Mammalia - Dasyuromorphia
Ganbulanyi dadjinguli n. gen., n. sp.
Wroe 1998
Mayigriphus orbus Wroe 1997
Mammalia - Diprotodontia
Wanburoo sp. Cooke 1999
Wanburoo hilarus Cooke 1999
Ekaltadeta jamiemulvaneyi n. sp. Wroe 1996
Ekaltadeta ima Archer and Flannery 1985
cf. Hadronomas sp. Woodburne 1967
Mammalia - Diprotodontia - Pseudocheiridae
Pseudocheiridae indet. Winge 1893
cf. Pseudocheirops sp. Marschie 1915
Mammalia - Diprotodontia - Burramyidae
Burramys brutyi Brammall and Archer 1997
Mammalia - Diprotodontia - Phalangeridae
Trichosurus sp. Lesson 1828
Mammalia - Diprotodontia - Palorchestidae
Palorchestes sp. Owen 1874
Palorchestes anulus Black 1997
Mammalia - Diprotodontia - Vombatidae
cf. Warendja sp. Hope and Wilkinson 1982
Warendja wakefieldi n. gen., n. sp. Hope and Wilkinson 1982
Brewer et al. 2007
Mammalia - Diprotodontia - Diprotodontidae
Neohelos sp. Stirton 1967
Mammalia - Diprotodontia - Thylacoleonidae
Wakaleo vanderleuri Clemens and Plane 1974
10 specimens
QM F36453, a left dentary with P3, M1-3; QM F29712, a left dentary with M1; QM F36454, a left dentary with M2 and partial I1 and M1; QM F41204, a right P3; QM F57286, a left P3; QM F30384, P3 (anterior half only); QM F36281, a left M1; QM F51409, a right M2; QM F52182, a left M3; and QM F57285, a left M3.
Mammalia - Diprotodontia - Macropodidae
Ganguroo sp. Cooke 1997
Mammalia - Peramelemorphia
Yaraloidea indet. Muirhead 2000
Mammalia
Petauroidea indet. Gill 1872
Reptilia
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758
Reptilia - Elapidae
Hydropheinae sp. (Boié 1827)
40 elements
"Hydropheinae gen. et sp. nov.", 1 maxilla, 1 dentary fragment, several ribs and more than 20 vertebrae, probably all belonging to one single individual
    = Incongruelaps iteratus n. gen., n. sp. Scanlon et al. 2003
Scanlon et al. 2003
holotype: QMF 42691 (mid-trunk vertebra); referred specimens: 1 right maxilla (QMF 23085), 1 left dentary fragment (QMF 23473), 30 fragmentary to complete vertebrae (QMF 23264 [13 elmts.], 23265 [4 elmts.], 23270 [3 elmts.], 23272 [4 elmts.], 23273 [2 elmts.], 42692 [4 elmts.]), incomplete ribs, including 4 rib heads (QMF 23267); all found in close proximity and consistent in size with a single adult individual
Reptilia - Madtsoiidae
Nanowana sp. Scanlon 1997
5 elements
5 associated vertebrae
Reptilia - Scincidae
Tiliqua cf. pusilla Shea and Hutchinson 1992
Egernia sp. Gray 1838
Reptilia - Testudines
Chelonia indet. (Latreille 1800)
synonym of Testudines
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Leptodactylidae
Leptodactylidae sp. Stirton 1953
Lechriodus intergerivus Tyler 1989
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Queensland
Coordinates: 19.0° South, 138.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:25.3° South, 136.8° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Tortonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Tortonian
Age range of interval:11.63000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: post-Middle Miocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Riversleigh World Heritage
Database number:68775
Authorizer:M. Uhen, J. Mueller, J. Alroy Enterer:M. Uhen, T. Liebrecht, A. Garcia Selles
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-02-06 09:01:43 Last modified:2020-08-03 12:52:28
Access level:the public Released:2007-02-06 09:01:43
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
19849.5% 58660T. Myers, K. Crosby, M. Archer and M. Tyler. 2001. The Encore Local Fauna, a late Miocene assemblage from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Memoirs of the Association of Australian Paleontologists 25:147-154 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

43135 P. Brewer, M. Archer, S. Hand and H. Godthelp. 2007. A new species of the wombat Warendja from the Late Miocene deposits at Riversleigh, North-West Queensland, Australia. Palaeontology 50(4):811-828 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles]
46996 J. D. Scanlon, M. S. Y. Lee, and M. Archer. 2003. Mid-Tertiary elapid snakes (Squamata, Colubroidea) from Riversleigh, northern Australia: early steps in a continent-wide adaptive radiation. Geobios 36(5):573-601 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]
42945 S. Wroe. 1998. A new ‘bone-cracking’ dasyurid (marsupialia), from the Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Alcheringa 22(3):277-284 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles]