Mutdapilly fossil locality: Middle Jurassic, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Polypodiopsida
- Gleicheniales
- Dipteridaceae
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Hausmannia cf. deferrariisii leaf
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Polypodiopsida
- Equisetales
- Equisetaceae
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Equisetum bryanii sterile axis, leaf
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| Gould | ||||||||||
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Polypodiopsida
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Cladophlebis australis leaf, fertile axis
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Cladophlebis informal sp. A leaf, sterile axis
Brongniart 1849
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Pinopsida
- Pinales
- Taxaceae
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Palissya ovalis seed repro
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Coniferales
- Podocarpaceae
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cf. Elatocladus confertus sterile axis, leaf
(Feistmantel 1877)
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| recombined as Elatocladus conferta | ||||||||||
| (Oldham & Morris) Halle | ||||||||||
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unclassified
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Tracheophyta indet. leaf, axis
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| The specimens are reminiscent of detached cycadalean or bennettitalean pinnules but none can be identified with certainty | ||||||||||
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Sphenopteridae
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Sphenopteris sp. leaf, sterile axis
Sternberg 1825
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Cycadopsida
- Cycadales
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Taeniopteris cf. spatulata leaf, sterile axis
McClelland 1850
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Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Queensland | County: | Mutdapilly |
| Coordinates: | 27.8° South, 152.7° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 67.8° South, 91.9° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Middle Jurassic |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 3-5 | ||
| *Period: | Middle Jurassic | ||
| Key time interval: | Middle Jurassic | ||
| Age range of interval: | 174.70000 - 161.50000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Regional section: | Clarence Moreton Basin |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray,yellow "shale" |
| Secondary lithology: | siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: fossils preserved as borwn iron-stained impressions in yellow-gray shale and siltstone. No organic matter preserved (no cuticle). | |
| Environment: | lacustrine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 21196 | ||
| Authorizer: | H. Sims | Enterer: | H. Lindon |
| Modifier: | H. Sims | Research group: | paleobotany |
| Created: | 2002-06-20 06:37:01 | Last modified: | 2003-07-14 16:16:01 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-06-20 06:37:01 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 6493. | S. McLoughlin and A. N. Drinnan. 1995. A Middle Jurassic Flora from the Walloon Coal Measures, Mutdapilly, Queensland, Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museam 38(1):257-272 [H. Sims/H. Lindon/H. Lindon] |