Species: ritchiei FLANNERY, ARCHER, RICH & JONES, 1995
Etymology: The species names is in honor of Alex Rictchie, whose persistence
in persuading the opal miners of lightning Ridge to send fossils to a museum
resulted in the recovery of the holotype.
Holotype: Australian Museum Palaeontological Collection F96602
Locality: 29°28’12”+-12”, 147°45’59”+-2, Claim 30226, Moonshine area of the Coocoran opal field, Lightning Ridge, New South Wales State, Australia.
Horizon: Wallangulla Sandstone Member, Griman Creek Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Albian Stage, Middle Gallic Subepoch, Upper Early Cretaceous Epoch, Early Cretaceous.
Material: A right dentary fragment with m1-3 and alveoli for p1, 2 and m4.
Referred material:
PIAN, ARCHER, HAND, BECK, & CODY, 2016
Locality: Unnamed mine on the Coocoran opal field, Lightning Ridge, New South Wales State, Australia.
Horizon: Wallangulla Sandstone Member, Griman Creek Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Albian Stage, Middle Gallic Subepoch, Upper Early Cretaceous Epoch, Early Cretaceous.
Material:
AM F140201: Opalised skull fragment preserving part of the
maxilla, which retains the posterior premolar (possibly P4) and M1-4, and
possibly also part of the palatine.