Where: Victoria, Australia (38.8° S, 143.4° E: paleocoordinates 74.0° S, 118.5° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Crybelosporites striatus pollen zone, Eumeralla Formation (Otway Group), Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)
• stratigraphically above Dinosaur Cove East
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; lithified sandstone and lithified, conglomeratic mudstone
•Formation (Otway Group) comprise finely laminated sandstones and
•mudstones with locally abundant horizontally stratified fossiliferous claystone/
•mudstone conglomerates. These were laid down by meandering to
•braided river systems in a mid-Cretaceous rift valley flood plain formed
•as a result of the onset of rifting between Australia and Antarctica
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1984-1985
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: P. V. Rich, T. R. Rich, B. E. Wagstaff, J. M. Mason, C. B. Douthitt, R. T. Gregory, and E. A. Felton. 1988. Evidence for low temperatures and biologic diversity in Cretaceous high latitudes of Australia. Science 242(4884):1403-1406 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 38537: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.04.2004, edited by Hallie Street and Roger Benson
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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