Mammals fossil field, one of the worlds most significant fossil deposits. Its fossils are from the late Oligocene period, dating back 25 million yea

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Mammals fossil field, one of the worlds most significant fossil deposits. Its fossils are from the late Oligocene period, dating back 25 million years, and include turtles, fish, snails, crocodiles, lizards, pythons, dromornithid birds, thylacines, diprotodontids, many types of kangaroos, palorchestes and bats. Riversleigh Section, Boodjamulla National Park, northwest, Queensland, Australia

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