Smith's Field, Coocoran (Cretaceous of Australia)

Also known as Smiths

Where: New South Wales, Australia (29.5° S, 147.8° E: paleocoordinates 59.3° S, 140.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Coptospora paradoxa pollen zone, Wallangulla Sandstone Member (Griman Creek Formation), Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; lithology not reported

• "estuary of the Australian Cretaceous inland sea"

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: T. Brougham, E. T. Smith, and P. R. Bell. 2019. New theropod (Tetanurae: Avetheropoda) material from the ‘mid’-Cretaceous Griman Greek Formation at Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia. Royal Society Open Science 6:180826:1-18 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 204932: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.09.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Avetheropoda indet. Paul 1988 avetheropod
LRF 3310–3312