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Tingamarra Local Fauna - Boat Mountain deposit, Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia

Lat/Long (Decimal)	-26,152
Co-ordinates Derivation	stated in text
Given Location	Queensland, Australia
Mindat.org Region (for given coordinates)	Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia

Collections

Collection	Reference	Stratigraphic Name	Comments	Lithology	Age
Tingamarra Local Fauna - Boat Mountain deposit	Scanlon J. D. (2005)		"...possibly a member of the Oakdale Sandstone Formation, see Salisbury & Willis, 1996)" (pg. 25) [Scanlon 1993?] "minimum age estimate of 54.6 +/- 0.05 x 10^6 years" based on K/Ar analysis of "clay from the mammal-bearing locality and horizon" (i.e., Main Quarry) material apparently from one "zone" or "horizon"	claystone	56 - 47.8 Ma Eocene

Recorded Fossils

Accepted Name	Hierarchy	Age
Anseriformes order	Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Anseriformes	56 - 47.8 Ma Eocene
Graculavidae family	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Graculavidae	56 - 47.8 Ma Eocene
Coraciiformes order	Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Coraciiformes	56 - 47.8 Ma Eocene
Metatheria subclass	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Metatheria	56 - 47.8 Ma Eocene
Australonycteris clarkae species	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Chiroptera : Palaeochiropterygidae : Australonycteris : *Australonycteris clarkae*	56 - 47.8 Ma Eocene
Djarthia murgonensis species	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Marsupialia : Djarthia : *Djarthia murgonensis*	56 - 47.8 Ma Eocene
Archaeonothos henkgodthelpi species	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Archaeonothos : *Archaeonothos henkgodthelpi*	56 - 47.8 Ma Eocene
Tingamarra porterorum species	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Aegialodontidae : Tingamarra : *Tingamarra porterorum*	56 - 47.8 Ma Eocene
Chulpasia jimthorselli species	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Didelphimorphia : Didelphidae : Chulpasia : *Chulpasia jimthorselli*	56 - 47.8 Ma Eocene
Thylacotinga bartholomaii species	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Asiatheriidae : Thylacotinga : *Thylacotinga bartholomaii*	56 - 47.8 Ma Eocene
Lechriodus casca species	Animalia : Chordata : Osteichthyes : Anura : Leptodactylidae : Lechriodus : *Lechriodus casca*	56 - 47.8 Ma Eocene
Kambara implexidens species	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia : Baurusuchidae : Kambara : *Kambara implexidens*	56 - 47.8 Ma Eocene
Kambara murgonensis species	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia : Baurusuchidae : Kambara : *Kambara murgonensis*	56 - 47.8 Ma Eocene
Alamitophis tingamarra species	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Madtsoiidae : Alamitophis : *Alamitophis tingamarra*	56 - 47.8 Ma Eocene
Madtsoia sp. genus	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Madtsoiidae : *Madtsoia*	56 - 47.8 Ma Eocene
Patagoniophis australiensis species	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Boidae : Patagoniophis : *Patagoniophis australiensis*	56 - 47.8 Ma Eocene
Murgonemys braithwaitei species	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Murgonemys : *Murgonemys braithwaitei*	56 - 47.8 Ma Eocene
Trionychidae family	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Trionychidae	56 - 47.8 Ma Eocene

References

Gaffney E. S., Bartholomai A. (1979) Fossil trionychids of Australia, Journal of Paleontology 53 3, 1354-1360

Godthelp H., Archer M., et al (1992) Earliest known Australian Tertiary mammal fauna, Nature 356, 514-516

Willis P. M. A., Molnar R. E., et al (1993) An Early Eocene crocodilian from Murgon, southeastern Queensland, Kaupia 3, 27-33

Tyler M. J., Godthelp H. (1993) A new species of Lechriodus Boulenger (Anura: Leptodactylidae) from the Early Eocene of Queensland, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 117 4, 187-189

Hand S., Novacek M., et al (1994) First Eocene bat from Australia, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 14 3, 375-381

Salisbury S. W., Willis P. M. A. (1996) A new crocodylian from the early Eocene of south-eastern Queensland and a preliminary investigation of the phylogenetic relationships of crocodyloids, Alcheringa 20, 179-226

Boles W. E. (1999) Early Eocene shorebirds (Aves: Charadriiformes) from the Tingamarra Local Fauna, Murgon, Queensland, Australia, Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 57, 229-238

Godthelp H., Wroe S., et al (1999) A new marsupial from the Early Eocene Tingamarra Local Fauna of Murgon, Southeastern Queensland: A prototypical Australian marsupial?, Journal of Mammalian Evoultion 6 3, 289-313

Scanlon J. D. (2005) Australia's oldest known snakes: Patagoniophis, Alamitophis, and Cf. Madtsoia (Squamata: Madtsoiidae) from the Eocene of Queensland., Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 51 1, 215-235

Sigé B., Archer M., et al (2009) Chulpasia and Thylacotinga, late Paleocene-earliest Eocene trans-Antarctic Gondwanan bunodont marsupials: New data from Australia, Geobios 42, 813-823

Elzanowski A., Boles W. E. (2012) Australia's oldest anseriform fossil: a quadrate from the early Eocene Tingamarra Fauna, Palaeontology 55 4, 903-911

Beck R. M. D. (2012) An ‘ameridelphian’ marsupial from the early Eocene of Australia supports a complex model of Southern Hemisphere marsupial biogeography, Naturwissenschaften 99, 715-729

Beck R. M. D. (2013) A peculiar faunivorous metatherian from the early Eocene of Australia, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60 1, 123-129

Georgalis G. L., Joyce W. G. (2017) A Review of the Fossil Record of Old World Turtles of the Clade Pan-Trionychidae, Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 58 1, 115-208 doi:10.3374/014.058.0106

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