Gag Site: Langhian - Serravallian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Dasyuromorphia
Joculusium muizoni n. gen., n. sp. Wroe 2001
Wroe 2001
Mammalia - Dasyuromorphia - Thylacinidae
Muribacinus gadiyuli n. gen., n. sp. Wroe 1996
Wroe 1996
Mammalia - Diprotodontia - Phalangeridae
Trichosurus dicksoni n. sp. Flannery and Archer 1987
Flannery and Archer 1987
Strigocuscus reidi n. sp. Flannery and Archer 1987
Flannery and Archer 1987
Mammalia - Diprotodontia
Hypsiprymnodon bartholomaii Flannery and Archer 1987
3 specimens
Ekaltadeta ima n. gen., n. sp. Archer and Flannery 1985
Archer and Flannery 1985
Wanburoo hilarus n. gen., n. sp. Cooke 1999
Cooke 1999
Wabularoo naughtoni n. gen., n. sp. Archer 1979
Archer 1979
Mammalia - Pilkipildridae
Djilgaringa gillespiei Archer et al. 1987
Archer et al. 1987
Reptilia - Pythonidae
Montypythonoides riversleighensis Smith and Plane 1985
Smith and Plane 1985 4 elements
recombined as Morelia riversleighensis
2 vertebrae (AR 3526, AR 3982; paratypes according to Scanlon, 2001), 2 isolated teeth (AR 3936, AR 4015)
Morelia riversleighensis (Smith and Plane 1985)
Scanlon 2001 1 fragment
incomplete premaxilla (AR 5658)
Reptilia - Madtsoiidae
Yurlunggur sp. Scanlon 1992
Scanlon 2005 1 fragment
1 mandibular fragment (QM F51381)
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Queensland
Coordinates: 19.1° South, 138.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:28.0° South, 135.9° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
*Period:Middle Tertiary - Middle Tertiary *Epoch:Middle - Late/Upper Miocene - Middle - Late/Upper Miocene
Key time interval:Langhian - Serravallian Zone: Faunal Zone C
Age range of interval:15.98000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Dwornamor Local Fauna
"part of System C assemblage at Riversleigh, which has been tentatively dated as medial Miocene" (Wroe 1996)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "carbonate"
Lithology description: "lacustrine carbonate" according to Archer et al. (1989)
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate,bone collector
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Disassociated major elements:none
Disassociated minor elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Collection methods:field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Queensland Museum collection (QM)
Michael Archer reference collection (AR), University of New South Wales (possibly serving as temporary registration)
Metadata
Also known as:Site GAG, Dwornamor Local Fauna, Riversleigh
Database number:28420
Authorizer:M. Uhen, J. Alroy, J. Mueller Enterer:M. Uhen, T. Liebrecht, A. Garcia Selles, J. Alroy
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2003-02-13 06:17:28 Last modified:2020-08-03 12:47:10
Access level:the public Released:2003-02-13 06:17:28
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
7830.5% 13660T. Flannery and M. Archer. 1987. Hypsiprymnodon bartholomaii (Potoroidae: Marsupialia), a new species from the Miocene Dwornamor Local Fauna and a reassessment of the phylogenetic position of H. mochatus. In M. Archer (ed.), Possums and Opossums: Studies in Evolution 2:749-758 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/A. Garcia Selles]

Secondary references:

43244 M. Archer. 1979. Wabularoo naughtoni gen. et sp. nov., an enigmatic kangaroo (Marsupialia) from the Middle Tertiary Carl Creek Limestone of Northwestern Queensland. Results of the E. Lemley Expeditions,Part 4. Memories of Queensland Museum 19(3):299-307 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles]
43224 M. Archer and T. Flannery. 1985. Revision of the Extinct Gigantic Rat Kangaroos (Potoroidae: Marsupialia), with Description of a New Miocene Genus and Species and a New Pleistocene Species of Propleopus. Journal of Paleontology 59(6):1331-1349 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles]
43091 M. Archer, R. H. Tedford, and T. H. Rich. 1987. The Pilkipildridae, a new family and four new species of petauroid possums (Marsupialia: Phalangeridae) from the Australian Miocene. In M. Archer (ed.), Possums and Opossums: Estudies in Evolution 2:607-627 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles/M. Uhen]
43242 B. N. Cooke. 1999. Wanburoo hilarus gen. et sp. nov., a lophodont bulungamayine kangaroo (Marsuoialia: Macropodoidea: Bulungamayinae) from the Miocene deposits of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 57:239-253 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles]
43086 T. Flannery and M. Archer. 1987. Strigocuscus reidi and Trichosurus dicksoni, two new fossil phalangerids (Marsupialia: Phalangerinae) from the Miocene of northwestern Queensland. In M. Archer (ed.), Possums and Opossums: Studies in Evolution 2:527-536 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles/A. Garcia Selles]
73261 T. J. Myers, K. H. Black, M. Archer and S. J. Hand. 2017. The identification of Oligo-Miocene mammalian palaeocommunities from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia and an appraisal of palaeoecological techniques. PeerJ 5(e3511):1-31 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
49982 J. D. Scanlon. 2001. Montypythonoides: the Miocene snake Morelia riversleighensis (Smith & Plane, 1985) and the geographical origin of pythons. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 25:1-35 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]
58841 J. D. Scanlon. 2005. Cranial morphology of the Plio-Pleistocene giant madtsoiid snake Wonambi naracoortensis. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 50(1):139-180 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/M. Uhen]
46969 M. J. Smith and M. Plane. 1985. Pythonine snakes (Boidae) from the Miocene of Australia. BMR Journal of Australian Geology and Geophysics 9(2):191-195 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]
31887 S. Wroe. 1996. Muribacinus gadiyuli, (Thylacinidae: Marsupialia), a very plesiomorphic thylacinid from the Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, and the problem of paraphyly for the Dasyuridae (Marsupialia). Journal of Paleontology 70(6):1032-1044 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
42947 S. Wroe. 2001. A new genus and species of dasyuromorphian from the Miocene of Riversleigh, Southern Australia. Menoirs of the Australian Association of Palaeontologists 25:53-59 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles/M. Uhen]