 Excavation at Riversleigh.
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Riversleigh field trip 2010
By Phil Creaser
04 August 2010
A team headed by staff from the Palaeosciences Group at UNSW together with scientists from other institutions has returned from another highly successful field trip to the World Heritage listed Riversleigh fossil province north of Mt Isa.
Several spectacular finds from Neville’s Garden and Inabeyance, the two sites collected from this year, included a previously unknown carnivorous marsupial with large fangs which featured on the Australian Geographic website.
The team also revisited a range of sites collecting rock samples that may be able to be radiometrically-dated. Initial results are very promising and it is hoped that further work will help to give a more definitive range for the age of the Riversleigh fossil deposits.
Work at Riversleigh is supported by the mining company Xstrata North Queensland and the Australian Research Council.
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