Flinders River (Cretaceous of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (20.8° S, 143.7° E: paleocoordinates 60.2° S, 124.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Walumbilla Formation, Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• Called "Flinders River beds" in reference & also called "Rolling Downs"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, fine-grained, concretionary, gray, silty lime mudstone

• "deposited in the inland sea"
• The rock-specimen, on which a number of fragments of Aucella are plainly visible, is hard, dark greyish-brown and moderately fine grained

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by R. Etheridge

Primary reference: H. Woodward. 1884. On the wing of a neuropterous insect from the Cretaceous limestone of Flinders River, north Queensland, Australia. The Geological Magazine, New Series, Decade III 1:337-339 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106404: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 15.03.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Odonata - Aeschnidiidae
"Aeschna flindersiensis n. sp." = Aeschnidiopsis flindersiensis
"Aeschna flindersiensis n. sp." = Aeschnidiopsis flindersiensis Woodward 1884 small darner
QGS no number
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
"Aucella hughendensis" = Buchia
"Aucella hughendensis" = Buchia scallop