Runcorn, Brisbane: Late/Upper Paleocene - Early/Lower Eocene, Australia
collected 1954

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Ostracoda
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802
Pieces of an ostracod shale layer (UQF 17487)
Reptilia - Testudines - Chelidae
Chelonia indet. (Latreille 1800)
Pieces of carapace (UQF 17494-17510) and plastron (UQF 24014-24020) of a "relatively large turtle"
    = ? Chelidae indet. Gray 1825
Lapparent de Broin and Molnar 2001
Reptilia - Crocodylidae
Crocodylidae indet. Cuvier 1807
Associated remains: UQF 73195 (anterior right dentary and tooth) and UQF 12363 (cervical centrum)
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Queensland
Coordinates: 27.5° South, 153.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.1° South, 154.0° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Paleogene
Key time interval:Late/Upper Paleocene - Early/Lower Eocene
Age range of interval:58.70000 - 48.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Corinda
Stratigraphy comments: 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.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection dates:1954
Metadata
Database number:113769
Authorizer:P. Mannion, P. Holroyd Enterer:P. Mannion, P. Holroyd
Modifier:G. Varnham
Created:2011-08-05 00:28:13 Last modified:2022-03-15 05:49:22
Access level:the public Released:2011-08-05 00:28:13
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

36953. 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]

Secondary references:

55551 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]