Bridge Creek (Carboniferous of Australia)

Also known as Intersection of Bridge Creek and Broken River, Mansfield

Where: Victoria, Australia (37.0° S, 146.1° E: paleocoordinates 40.7° S, 141.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Home Station Sandstone Member (Snowy Plains Formation), Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. M. Holland, J. A. Long, A. Warren and J. M. Garvey. 2004. Second specimen of the lower actinopterygian Novogonatodus kasantsevae Long 1988 from the Early Carboniferous of Mansfield, Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 118(1):1-10 [E. Dunne/S. Fasey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 230548: authorized by Emma Dunne, entered by Sophie Fasey on 30.06.2023

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Elonichthyiformes - Gonatodidae
Novogonatodus kasantsevae n. gen. n. sp. Long 1988 ray-finned fish
NMV P.216859; presumably also holotype NMV P.160862
 Palaeonisciformes -
Mansfieldiscus sweeti n. gen. n. sp. Woodward 1906
NMVP10293 (holotype), NMVP47780, NMVP181709; NHMUK P.9873 (Probably this locality per Holland et al 2014)
? Mansfieldiscus gibbus n. sp. Woodward 1906
NMVP10296 (holotype); NMVP10299