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Riversleigh fossils
The Riversleigh Society was first formed to help support scientific study of the fossils from Riversleigh in northwestern Queensland, Australia. Find out more about Riversleigh fossils...
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Fossils from RiversleighFrom more than 250 fossil-rich sites at Riversleigh hundreds of new species have been described from thousands of well-preserved specimens.There are many yet to be described and many more fossil sites waiting to be discovered. Nowhere else in the world is there such a rich, detailed and continuous fossil record of the changes in fauna, habitat and climate at a single locality.
Our understanding of the origins, evolution and history of many of Australia's vertebrate groups has been greatly enhanced by the fossil record of Riversleigh's rich Oligo-Miocene habitats. These Tertiary faunas include ancestors and representatives of the kangaroos, rat-kangaroos, bandicoots, wombats, marsupial moles, thylacines, dasyurids, koalas, possums, pygmy possums, cuscuses, bats, rodents and platypuses and the now extinct diprotodontids, thylacoleonids, ilariids and wynyardiids. In addition to mammals there are crocodiles, snakes, lizards, turtles, lungfish, frogs, birds, snails, insects and other invertebrates.
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