East of Jones Road, Redbank Plains (Paleocene to of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (27.7° S, 152.9° E: paleocoordinates 48.3° S, 153.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Redbank Plains Formation, Paleocene to Paleocene (66.0 - 41.3 Ma)

• "at least Eocene if not Palaeocene time"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Specimen at Queensland Museum, Brisbane

Primary reference: F. Lapparent de Broin and R. E. Molnar. 2001. Eocene chelid turtles from Redbank Plains, Southeast Queensland. Geodiversitas 23(1):41-79 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176505: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 15.02.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Chelidae
Chelodina alanrixi n. sp. Lapparent de Broin and Molnar 2001 sideneck turtle
QM F18344, holotype