Australia: The Land Where Time Began

A biography of the Australian continent 

Riversleigh Arthropods                                                                                                                                            Last updated 30/06/2009

Identified in the Riversleigh deposits are millipedes (Diplopoda), ants (Formicidae), cicada (Hemiptera), beetles (Coleoptera), weevils (Curculionidae, slaters (Isopoda), ostracods (Ostracoda). Most of these were from the Early Miocene in the Upper Site. They come from terrestrial and aquatic environments.

Sources & Further reading

Michael Archer, Suzanne J. Hand & Henk Godthelp, Australia's Lost World: Riversleigh, world heritage Site, Reed New Holland