Cardabia Station [Miria Marl]: Maastrichtian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Mosasauridae
Mosasauridae indet. Gervais 1852
WAM 91.8.16, 3 associated caudal vertebrae
Plioplatecarpinae indet. (Dollo 1884)
Fragmentary material
Thecostraca - Calanticomorpha - Calanticidae
Calantica (Scillaelepas) cardabia Buckeridge 1983
Buckeridge 1983
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Western Australia
Coordinates: 23.0° South, 114.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:50.1° South, 100.3° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Miria Marl
Stratigraphic resolution:group
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified calcareous sandstone
Secondary lithology:green lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: It consists of cream calcarenite .6-2m thick, underlain by the Korojon calcarenite and disconformably succeeded by the Palaeocene Boongerooda Greensand. Phosphatic grains and nodules are locally abundant and much of the rich fossil complement of the Mira Formation occurs as phosphatic moulds.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Museum repositories:WAM
Collection method comments: The descriptions are primarily based on three major collections: one made by G. Kendrick and T. Darragh in 1969, another by K. J. M. with Kendrick and Darragh in 1979, and the third by the same group plus R. A. H. in 1983. These collections are housed in the Western Australian Museum (WAM) and the Museum of Victoria (NMV). We have also made use of Teichert's 1938 collection, which is housed in the Department of Geology, University of Western Australia (UWA). Other specimens examined and referred to in the text are from collections in the British Museum, Natural History (BM), and the Oxford University Museum (OUM).
Metadata
Database number:41538
Authorizer:A. Miller, P. Mannion, A. Hendy Enterer:D. Schramm, A. Hendy, J. Tennant
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-07-16 10:28:58 Last modified:2017-05-23 16:34:15
Access level:the public Released:2004-07-16 10:28:58
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
46317. B. P. Kear, J. A. Long, and J. E. Martin. 2005. A review of Australian mosasaur occurences. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences — Geologie en Mijnbouw 84(3):307-313 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]

Secondary references:

52412 J. S. Buckeridge. 1983. Fossil barnacles (Cirripedia: Thoracica) of New Zealand and Australia. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 50:1-151 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]