Westvale No. 6 Colliery tracksite: Middle Jurassic, Australia
collected 1948

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes
tracks
Molnar 1982
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Queensland
Coordinates: 27.0° South, 152.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:67.3° South, 113.3° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Middle Jurassic
10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 3-5
Key time interval: Middle Jurassic
Age range of interval: 174.7 - 161.5 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Walloon Coal Measures
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Secondary lithology: coal
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "a 12-in. shale band centrally situated in a 13-ft. coal-bearing section"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),peel or thin section,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection dates:1948
Metadata
Also known as:Lowfield No. 2, Wass Seam
Database number:142854
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-04-17 06:49:11 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2013-04-17 06:49:11
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
46364. Anonymous. 1952. Dinosaur footprints. Queensland Government Mining Journal 53(613):949-950 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

63623 J. B. Cameron. 1970. The Rosewood-Walloon coalfield. Geological Survey of Queensland Publication 344:1-42 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
46279 R. E. H. Molnar. 1982. A catalogue of fossil amphibians and reptiles in Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 20(3):613-633 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
79070 J. D. Scanlon. 2006. Dinosaurs and other Mesozoic reptiles of Australasia. In J. R. Merrick, M. Archer, G. M. Hickey, & M. S. Y. Lee (eds.), Evolution and Biogeography of Australasian Vertebrates 265-290 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]