West Tank, Giralia Station (Cretaceous of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (22.7° S, 114.3° E: paleocoordinates 49.6° S, 100.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Miria Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; grainstone and marl

• "low-energy, shallow marine shelf"
• collected from "marly exposures"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. P. Kear and M. Siverson. 2010. First evidence of a Late Cretaceous sea turtle from Australia. Alcheringa 34:265-272 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 106495: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 21.03.2011, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines -
Dermochelyoidea indet. turtle
WAM 03.3.37