Alamitophis tingamarra was a small Eocene madtsoiid, an extinct family of primitive snakes known mainly from Gondwana. Madtsoiids have the longest fossil record of any group of snakes, with a record that stretches from about 90 million to 100,000 years ago.

The Murgon fossil site is a paleontological site of early Eocene age in south-eastern Queensland, Australia. It lies near the town of Murgon, some 270 km north-west of Brisbane.

Four species are currently recognised, the sympatric Kambara murgonensis and Kambara implexidens from sediments near Murgon, the poorly preserved Kambara molnari from the Rundle Formation and the youngest of the four, Kambara taraina, also from the Rundle Formation.

Alamitophis tingamarra was a small Eocene madtsoiid, an extinct family of primitive snakes known mainly from Gondwana. Madtsoiids have the longest fossil record of any group of snakes, with a record that stretches from about 90 million to 100,000 years ago.

Other remarkable creatures from Murgon include the only record of salamanders, a group no longer seen on this continent. There was also a very primitive snake Alamitophis. The most striking thing about the animals from Murgon is that they are all pretty small.

Small madtsoiid snakes referred to Patagoniophis and Alamitophis are represented by specimens of all major regions of the vertebral column from the Tingamarra Local Fauna (Early Eocene; Murgon,...

The Tingamarra Fauna is associated with the early Eocene Murgon fossil site, and contains the earliest known non-flying eutherian, passerine, trionychidae turtles, mekosuchine crocodiles along with frogs, lungfish and teleost fish in Australia. [1]

Murgon is situated in south-east Queensland, along the Bunya Highway, 270 km northwest of Brisbane. The location of this fossil site is a place of rolling hills, some of the higher of which are capped with basalt from lava that flowed down valley floors about 25 million years ago.

Small madtsoiid snakes referred to Patagoniophis and Alamitophis are represented by specimens of all major regions of the vertebral column from the Tingamarra Local Fauna (Early Eocene; Murgon, Queensland, Australia), and are diagnosed as distinct from members of the same genera from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian - ?Maastrichtian) of Patagonia ...

Snakes and lizards have a process in front of the neural arch - the zygosphene. A. tingamarra, from the Murgon deposit in Queensland, can be distinguished from A. elongatus, from Patagonia by features of the vertebral column. During the Early Eocene the Murgon fossil site was apparently a swamp or lake. It is not thought they were fully aquatic ...