Runcorn, Brisbane (Paleocene to of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (27.5° S, 153.0° E: paleocoordinates 48.1° S, 154.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Corinda Formation, Late/Upper Paleocene to Late/Upper Paleocene (58.7 - 48.6 Ma)

• Specimens found towards the bottom of the well and probably from the upper part of the Corinda Formation. More likely to be Eocene than Paleocene.

•Redbank Plains Formation and has been inferred to be Paleogene in age (Rozefelds et al., 2015). Sediments from the Corinda and Darra Formations penetrated in the nearby Ipswich Well GSQ 24 are considered to be contemporaneous with those from the Redbank Plains Formation.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1954

Primary reference: P. M. A. Willis and R. E. Molnar. 1991. A longirostrine crocodile from the Early Tertiary of southeastern Queensland. Alcheringa 15(3):229-233 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 113769: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 05.08.2011, edited by Patricia Holroyd

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Crocodylidae
Crocodylidae indet. crocodile
Associated remains: UQF 73195 (anterior right dentary and tooth) and UQF 12363 (cervical centrum)
 Testudines - Chelidae
? Chelidae indet. Gray 1825 sideneck turtle
Pieces of carapace (UQF 17494-17510) and plastron (UQF 24014-24020) of a "relatively large turtle"
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Pieces of an ostracod shale layer (UQF 17487)