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	Riversleigh Guest House Historic Bed and Breakfast Accommodation in Ballina
		Riversleigh Guest House Historic Bed and Breakfast Accommodation in Ballina
		This privately run, historic guest house is a comfortable and friendly base from which to explore the many and varied attractions of beautiful Ballina and the North Coast.
		Riversleigh Guest House was built in the 1880's and restored to its former splendour in 2001.
	www.riversleigh.com.au (119 words)

	Riversleigh Fossil site - Queensland, Australia
		Riversleigh covers an area of approximately 80 square kilometres and is located 250 km north-west of Mt Isa.
		Riversleigh is one of the world's richest Oligo-Miocene mammal records, linking that period (15-25 million years ago) to the predominantly modern assemblages of the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs.
		The variety of deposits at Riversleigh has led to an understanding of how the environment has changed over time from a rich rainforest community to semi-arid grassland, and how the animals that lived in it have changed too.
	www.aboriginalartonline.com /riversleigh/entry.html (456 words)

	Riversleigh - EPA/QPWS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Riversleigh section, which covers 10 000 ha of land, is located in the southern section of Boodjamulla National Park in northwest Queensland and is managed by the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service.
		The Riversleigh fossil deposits are among the richest and most extensive in the world, with some fossils dating back to the Oligo-Miocene time, some 15-25 million years ago.
		The Riversleigh Fossil Centre provides an extensive insight into the region as it was 25 million years ago, and into the process of fossilisation.
	www.epa.qld.gov.au /parks_and_forests/world_heritage_areas/riversleigh (267 words)

	Riversleigh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Riversleigh, in North West Queensland, is a 100 km² area containing fossil remains of ancient mammals of the Oligocene and Miocene.
		Riversleigh is one of Australia's most renowned fossil sites.
		Fossils at Riversleigh are encased in limestone formed in lime-rich freshwater pools and caves as the ecosystem evolved from a rich rainforest community to semi-arid grasslands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Riversleigh (198 words)

	Riversleigh Manor House
		Riversleigh Manor is a rambling old, virtual manor house with many private quarters.
		Paths from Riversleigh lead through the Golden Seed Grove to the, Gyspy Camp the The Hermitage and the Lemurian Abbey.
		Riversleigh Manor is the base home of those who have decided to come ad find the Magic Faraway Tree, which is said to be within the Enchanted Golden Seed Grove.
	www.outbackonline.net /Advent2006/Advent2006_Day7_RiversleighManor.html (928 words)

	Australia's Lost Kingdoms - Early Miocene period - About Riversleigh
		Riversleigh is located in north-western Queensland and has more than 250 fossil-rich sites that date from 25 million to 40 000 years ago.
		Riversleigh also records the history of crocodiles, snakes, lizards, turtles, lungfish, frogs, birds, snails, insects and other invertebrates.
		One important find at Riversleigh was the 15 million-year-old platypus Obdurodon dicksoni which is known from a skull complete with teeth.
	www.lostkingdoms.com /snapshots/miocene_early_riversleigh.htm (443 words)

	RIVERSLEIGH LIMESTONE © (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Riversleigh paintings are the result of a recent trip to that area.
		Riversleigh is a large cattle station 200km NW of Mt. Isa near the Queensland - Northern Territory boarder close to the center of Australia.
		Riversleigh is one of the worlds most significant fossil fields.
	www.johnlovett.com /riversle.htm (130 words)

	Protected Areas Programme - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Riversleigh comprises the southern section of Lawn Hill National Park in north-west Queensland.
		PHYSICAL FEATURES The Tertiary fossil fields of Riversleigh are apparently confined to the watershed of the spring fed Gregory River within the Karumba Basin in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
		Palaeohabitats for the Pleistocene and early Holocene of the Riversleigh region are as yet unclear.
	www.unep-wcmc.org /protected_areas/data/wh/fossil2.html (2069 words)

	World Heritage: Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh/Naracoorte)
		Riversleigh (10 000 hectares), located in north western Queensland, is confined to the watershed of the Gregory River.
		In stark contrast to the semi-arid conditions at Riversleigh stand the cool caves at Naracoorte.
		While there are other important Australian fossil mammal sites, Riversleigh and Naracoorte are outstanding for the extreme diversity and the quality of preservation of their fossils.
	www.deh.gov.au /heritage/worldheritage/sites/fossil/index.html (862 words)

	Riversleigh/Naracoorte Mammal Fossil Sites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Riversleigh site provides outstanding examples of middle to late Tertiary mammal assemblages in a continent whose mammalian evolutionary history has been one of the most isolated and distinctive in the world.
		Riversleigh is one of the richest and most exciting fossil fields in the world.
		The deposits at Riversleigh are a massive burial ground of prehistoric creatures.
	www.thesalmons.org /lynn/wh-riversleigh.html (185 words)

	Lemurian Sanctuary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		They will be at Riversleigh for one year and a day and the project will include, amongst other projects, the construction of the 2006 Advent-URE calendar.
		Riversleigh Manor is a rambling old house with twenty five private quarters.
		Riversleigh Manor is the base home of those who have decided to come and find the Magic Faraway Tree, which is said to be within the Enchanted Golden Seed Grove.
	www.dailywriting.net /riversleighmanor.htm (527 words)

	Riversleigh - Fossil Sites - Australian Beasts - ABC Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Riversleigh is a locality that contains hundreds of fossil sites that span an age from about 25 million years ago to about 15 million years ago.
		Burrowing through the leaf litter on the forest floor were marsupial moles while quiet stretches of water might be the home of the toothed platypus Obduradon.
		At Riversleigh we see the ancestors or representatives of all the major groups of Australian animals with some significant exceptions.
	www.abc.net.au /science/ausbeasts/sites/riversleigh.htm (501 words)

	TO CLONE A THYLACINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Their 22 million year-old bones are preserved, along with those of dozens of other extinct marsupials, in the fabulous limestone ossuary that Archer and his colleagues discovered on Riversleigh Station, in north-west Queensland, in the early 1980s.
		Riversleigh offers glimpses of life in the Australian rainforests between about 12 and 25 million years ago, when the ancestors of today's fauna, and some odd marsupials that left no modern issue, inhabited a warmer, wetter Australia.
		The teeming life of Riversleigh's rainforests provided a smorgasbord for flesh-eaters, including several species of thylacine, and at least one earlyh progenitor of the uniquely Australian family of predators, the Dasyuridae.
	www.irysec.vic.edu.au /sci/goneill/thylacine.htm (2431 words)

	Fossil sites of Australia - Riversleigh
		Riversleigh was gazetted as part of the Lawn Hill National Park under the Queensland National Park and Wildlife Act 1975 in 1984.
		Before Riversleigh's fossil record began to unfold, there was only one Tertiary species known, but different thylacines have been identified from Riversleigh's Oligo-Miocene faunas (Muirhead and Archer 1990; Muirhead 1993).
		Although Riversleigh provides a wealth of information about the evolution of the Australian fauna, many mysteries have also been uncovered and are yet to be solved.
	www.amonline.net.au /fossil_sites/riversleigh.htm (1077 words)

	Comfort Inn Riversleigh Home
		Riversleigh is listed by the National Trust and is considered an East Gippsland icon.
		Riversleigh is the only accommodation in Bairnsdale that is not on the main highway, therefore there is no traffic noise.
		Riversleigh is central to many Places to See and things to do in the East Gippsland region.
	riversleigh.info (254 words)

	Riversleigh Estate Marlboroough NZ
		Riversleigh Estate Marlboroough NZ Attracted by Marlborough's ability to produce wines of stunning distinctiveness, Bruce Stapleton and Geoffrey Sprot came to the region in 1997 to establish Riversleigh Estate.
		It took a further two years to find and purchase the present 86 acre vineyard which lies on the Wairau river gravels near Renwick, in the heart of the best that Marlborough has to offer.
		Riversleigh Estate is dedicated to developing grapes of the highest quality from its plantings of Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris and producing a range of wines under the Kotare Wines label.
	www.riversleigh.net (140 words)

	Lawn Hill NP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The national park covers two sections: Riversleigh Fossil Site and the gorge itself, about 70km from each other, with access either through Riversleigh to the gorge, or direct to the gorge via the Gregory Downs Roadhouse.
		The Riversleigh route is definitely worth it, but the Gregory Downs track is less remote.
		Riversleigh may ultimately produce a fossil record of evolutionary change for an entire ecosystem, but don’t expect to see much in situ as the fossils are trapped in limestone boulders which have to be blasted out and treated with acid to release their contents.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /australia/queensland/lawnhillgorge.asp (974 words)

	The Thylacine Journey - Chapter One - October 2002: The University of Sydney
		At the university, I was able to get an up-close look at some of the amazing new fossil marsupial discoveries that he has been working with.
		Riversleigh's rocks are very dense and solid, and have served well to protect the remains of vertebrates that lived between 5-34 million years ago (Miocene to Oligocene Epochs).
		This is the skull of Barinya wangala, also found in the deposits of Riversleigh.
	www.naturalworlds.org /thylacine/journey/chapter1/University_Sydney.htm (424 words)

	Outback at Isa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Riversleigh Fossil Centre educates and interprets for visitors the fossils extracted from the nearby Riversleigh fossil fields.
		Unlike many other fossil deposits, the Riversleigh fossils are not just a snapshot in time, but a window on the development of early mammal megafauna over the past 30 million years.
		Riversleigh Fossil Centre is unique among centres offering ‘fossil tourism’, as Palaeontologic research can be watched and experienced first hand during daily lab tours with our resident Palaeontologist.
	www.outbackatisa.com.au /default.asp?d=55567 (212 words)

	Australia's fossil past
		Riversleigh has been recognised as one of the most important fossil sites in the world.
		Discoveries at Riversleigh continue to fill in the gaps in last 25 million years of Australian fauna history.
		Some of the most recent finds include a jaw from a possum which is represented today by the Striped Possum from the rainforests of north-east Queensland and New Guinea; an almost complete skeleton of a thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) and a bat which appears to be the ancestor of a New Zealand bat previously thought unique.
	www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au /articles/fossils (1066 words)

	See Mount Isa - past and present
		Riversleigh Fossil Centre opens the window into the prehistoric world that lies four hours drive to the north of Mount Isa.
		The World Heritage-listed Riversleigh Fossil site is recognised as one of the richest and most extensive in the world.
		The award-winning Riversleigh Fossil Centre houses a series of exciting and informative displays and brings the once wet, tropical landscape and its long-gone inhabitants back to life.
	www.action-graphics.com.au /matilda/pages/mtisa/mtisaoutback.html (762 words)

	Commonwealth Wine & Spirits, Inc : Our Brands
		Riversleigh Estate is dedicated to producing grapes of the highest quality from its plantings of Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris.
		Her winemaking ethos is supportive rather than interventionist, allowing the qualities from the vineyard to show through in her wines.
		Often to be seen along Gibson’s Creek, which meanders through Riversleigh Estate, this native bird provides not only the name but the inspiration to produce that same distinction in our wines.
	www.commwine.com /brands/newzealand/kotare.html (660 words)

	Bob Shadforth of Riversleigh Station
		He was the eldest son of F. Shadforth, who, with his wife and family, left Victoria in the 'seventies and traveled overland to the Gulf.
		He stayed awhile, and built a homestead on what is now Austral Downs (N.T.)' but, owing to doubt about the borderline between Q'land and the Territory, he surrendered the property and took up Lilydale (now Riversleigh) on the Gregory River.
		Bob's sister married Sub-inspector Lamond, of the mounted police, and her son, H. Lamond, the naturalist, was the first white child born on the Riversleigh country half a century ago.
	www.burkeshirecouncil.com /shadforth.htm (364 words)

	Riversleigh Fossil Site Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Riversleigh: the story of animals in ancient rainforests of inland Australia
		Hutchinson M.N., "Origins of the Australian scincid lizards: a preliminary report on the skinks of Riversleigh."
		Muirhead, J., Filan, S.L. Yarala burchfieldi, a plesiomorphic bandicoots (Marsupialia, Peramelemorphia) from Oligo-Miocene deposits of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland."
	www.thesalmons.org /lynn/riversleigh-bib.html (180 words)

	Riversleigh and The Lemurian Faraway Tree
		The Manor house has twenty five private quarters and it is the base for those who have signed up to explore the Golden Seed Grove and find the Faraway Tree of Enid Blyton fame.
		They will be at Riversleigh for one year and a day and the project will include, amongst other projects.
		To mark the beginning of a New Year residents explored the old garden shed at the back of Riversleigh, quite close to the Riversleigh River and planted seeds that le Enchanteur had left down there.
	www.dailywriting.net /FarawayTree/FarawayTree.htm (510 words)

	The Thylacine Museum - Some Thylacine Relics: Tertiary (page 3)
		It is assumed that each type was independently specialized to pursue certain prey in the Early Miocene rainforest of Queensland.
		At right are shown palatal (above) and dorsal (below) views of the skull of Nimbacinus dicksoni, which I photographed during a visit to the University of Sydney in 2002 to discuss fossil marsupials with Dr. Stephen Wroe.
		Places such as these are integral to our understanding of the history of life, and must be preserved and protected.
	www.naturalworlds.org /thylacine/relics/Tertiary_3.htm (602 words)

	Australia's Lost World: Prehistoric Animals of Riversleigh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Archer, Hand, and Godthelp (all, Univ. of New South Wales) offer a beautifully written and magnificently illustrated description of the literally hundreds of different fossil vertebrate species unearthed in Riversleigh, a rather isolated station 200 kilometers northwest of Mt. Isa, Queensland, Australia.
		Ecologists working as co-investigators recognize that the fossils of Riversleigh established the trends in Australian ecosystems as the so-called "greenhouse" conditions began to develop.
		The Riversleigh fossil record is one of the world's greatest refuse piles.
	www.booksmatter.com /b0253339146.htm (217 words)

	Protected Areas Programme - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Riversleigh experiences dry winters and cool summers with monsoonal rainfall.
		Riversleigh: Queensland National Parks and Wildlife Service, PO Box 2316, MT ISA QLD 4825
		Riversleigh's Pliocene habitats may not have included rainforest.
	www.wcmc.org.uk /protected_areas/data/wh/fossil2.html (2069 words)

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