Where: Queensland, Australia (20.0° S, 141.0° E: paleocoordinates 51.0° S, 128.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Toolebuc Formation, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• Late Albian age is based on ammonites and nannofossils. Not older than the Prediscosphaera columnata Zone and not younger than the Mortoniceras inflatum Zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collection methods: bulk, core,

Primary reference: R. A. Henderson. 2004. A mid-Cretaceous association of shell beds and organic-rich shale: bivalve exploitation of a nutrient-rich, anoxic seafloor environment. Palaios 19:156-169 [F. Fursich/A. Tomasovych]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 56887: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Adam Tomasovych on 28.11.2005

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