Moonkinu Beach QMF L923 (East of Mirindow Point) (Cretaceous of Australia)

Where: Northern Territory, Australia (11.8° S, 130.4° E: paleocoordinates 40.1° S, 117.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Acanthoceras rhotomagense ammonoid zone, Moonkinu Formation (Bathurst Island Group), Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• "immediately beneath the ammonite-bearing Tapara bed"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, concretionary mudstone and concretionary siltstone

• from multiple beds of mudstone and siltstone interbedded with apparently unfossiliferous fine quartzose sandstone

•formation is "an open marine, shelfal environment"

• LITHOLOGY: "1.5 m interval of fossil-bearing concretionary siltstone and mudstone". LITHIFICATION: Poorly lithified, based on figured specimen.

Preservation: concretion, original aragonite

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: J. D. Stilwell and R. A. Henderson. 2002. Description and paleobiogeographic significance of a rare Cenomanian molluscan faunule from Bathurst Island, northern Australia. Journal of Paleontology 76(3):447-471 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13945: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.05.2002

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Taxonomic list

• may include some ammonites placed in QMW L824 list (see)
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Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
"Actinoceramus nipponicus" = Birostrina
"Actinoceramus nipponicus" = Birostrina clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
"Varicorbula cretaustrina n. sp." = Corbula (Varicorbula)
"Varicorbula cretaustrina n. sp." = Corbula (Varicorbula) clam
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
? Jupiteria sp.
? Jupiteria sp. Bellardi 1875 pointed nut clam
"new species A"