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Wonambi, the Glossary

Wonambi is an extinct genus of madtsoiid snakes that lived in late Neogene to late Quaternary Australia.^[1]

30 relations: Aboriginal Australians, Ambush predator, Australia, Australian megafauna, Constriction, Fire-stick farming, Genus, Kangaroo, Madtsoiidae, Miocene, Myth, Naracoorte, South Australia, Nature (journal), Neogene, Noongar, Pleistocene, Pythonidae, Quaternary, Rainbow Serpent, Royal Society Open Science, Sacred natural site, Snake, The Dreaming, The Future Eaters, Thylacoleo, Tim Flannery, Wagyl, Wallaby, Western Australia, Yurlunggur.
Fossil taxa described in 1976
Miocene reptiles
Pleistocene reptiles
Pleistocene reptiles of Australia
Pliocene reptiles
Reptiles described in 1976

Aboriginal Australians

Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands.

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Ambush predator

Ambush predators or sit-and-wait predators are carnivorous animals that capture their prey via stealth, luring or by (typically instinctive) strategies utilizing an element of surprise.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian megafauna

The term Australian megafauna refers to the megafauna in Australia during the Pleistocene Epoch.

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Constriction

Constriction is a method used by several snake species to kill or subdue their prey.

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Fire-stick farming, also known as cultural burning and cool burning, is the practice of Aboriginal Australians regularly using fire to burn vegetation, which has been practised for thousands of years.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Kangaroo

Kangaroos are marsupials from the family Macropodidae (macropods, meaning "large foot").

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Madtsoiidae

Madtsoiidae is an extinct family of mostly Gondwanan snakes with a fossil record extending from early Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) to late Pleistocene strata located in South America, Africa, India, Australia and Southern Europe.

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Miocene

The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).

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Myth

Myth is a genre of folklore consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society.

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Naracoorte, South Australia

Naracoorte is a town in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia, approximately 336 kilometres south-east of Adelaide and 100 kilometres north of Mount Gambier on the Riddoch Highway (A66).

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Nature (journal)

Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.

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Neogene

The Neogene is a geologic period and system that spans 20.45 million years from the end of the Paleogene Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the present Quaternary Period million years ago.

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Noongar

The Noongar (also spelt Noongah, Nyungar, Nyoongar, Nyoongah, Nyungah, Nyugah, and Yunga) are Aboriginal Australian people who live in the south-west corner of Western Australia, from Geraldton on the west coast to Esperance on the south coast.

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Pleistocene

The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

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Pythonidae

The Pythonidae, commonly known as pythons, are a family of nonvenomous snakes found in Africa, Asia, and Australia.

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Quaternary

The Quaternary is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).

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Rainbow Serpent

The Rainbow Serpent or Rainbow Snake is a common deity often seen as the creator God, known by numerous names in different Australian Aboriginal languages by the many different Aboriginal peoples.

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Royal Society Open Science

Royal Society Open Science is a peer-reviewed, open access scientific journal published by the Royal Society since September 2014.

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Sacred natural site

A sacred natural site is a natural feature or a large area of land or water having special spiritual significance to peoples and communities.

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Snake

Snakes are elongated, limbless reptiles of the suborder Serpentes.

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The Dreaming

The Dreaming, also referred to as Dreamtime, is a term devised by early anthropologists to refer to a religio-cultural worldview attributed to Australian Aboriginal beliefs.

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The Future Eaters

The Future Eaters is a 1994 non-fiction book by Australian author Tim Flannery.

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Thylacoleo

Thylacoleo ("pouch lion") is an extinct genus of carnivorous marsupials that lived in Australia from the late Pliocene to the Late Pleistocene (until around 40,000 years ago), often known as marsupial lions. Wonambi and Thylacoleo are Pleistocene genus extinctions.

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Tim Flannery

Timothy Fridtjof Flannery (born 28 January 1956) is an Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist, conservationist, explorer, author, science communicator, activist and public scientist.

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Wagyl

The Wagyl (also written Waugal, Waagal, and variants) is the Noongar manifestation of the Rainbow Serpent in Australian Aboriginal mythology, from the culture based around the south-west of Western Australia.

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Wallaby

A wallaby is a small or middle-sized macropod native to Australia and New Guinea, with introduced populations in New Zealand, Hawaii, the United Kingdom and other countries.

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Western Australia

Western Australia (WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western third of the land area of the Australian continent.

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Yurlunggur

Yurlunggur is a genus of fossil snake in the extinct family Madtsoiidae containing the species Yurlunggur camfieldensis known from the Oligocene and Miocene of Australia. Y. camfieldensis was a large apex predator that typically reached in length, with one vertebra from the Wyandotte Creek suggesting a maximum length of.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonambi

Also known as Wonambi naracoortensis.