Where: Queensland, Australia (26.3° S, 152.7° E: paleocoordinates 58.0° S, 141.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Traveston Formation, Smithian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)
• Meekoceras gracilitatis Zone is lower Smithian subzone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, green shale and lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected in 1967; reposited in the UQ
• The specimens are held in the University of Queensland
Primary reference: B. Runnegar. 1969. A Lower Triassic Ammonoid Fauna from Southeast Queensland. Journal of Paleontology 43(3):818-828 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/A. McGowan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 116736: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.09.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Stachella sp." = Warthia
"Stachella sp." = Warthia Waagen 1880 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
Latisageceras woondumense n. sp.
Latisageceras woondumense n. sp. Runnegar 1969 ammonite | |
Paranorites queenslandicus Runnegar 1969 ceratite | |
Bivalvia | |
"Nuculoida indet." = Nuculida
"Nuculoida indet." = Nuculida Dall 1889 clam | |
Ophiuroidea | |
Ophiuroidea indet. Gray 1840 brittle star |