Ecological succession during the late Cainozoic of central eastern Queensland: extinction of a diverse rainforest community

New late Cainozoic faunal assemblages are preliminarily identified and described from central eastern Queensland. Biocorrelation of the sites has determined that the oldest faunal assemblages are Early Pliocene in age, with younger faunas from the Plio-Pleistocene, late Pleistocene and Holocene. Pliocene faunal assemblages are characterised by rainforest-specialist frog, squamate and mammalian taxa. ...