Lanefield Extended Colliery, No. 2 tracksite (Jurassic of Australia)

Also known as Bruce Seam, Rosewood

Where: Queensland, Australia (27.6° S, 152.6° E: paleocoordinates 67.6° S, 92.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Walloon Coal Measures Formation, Middle Jurassic (174.7 - 161.5 Ma)

• top of the Lanefield Seam

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; coal and shale

• "Directly above the coal is a 7-ft. bed of shale with 6-in. lenses of clay-ironstone, and above that again about 20 ft. of white sandstone that underlies 9 in. shale and a 3 ft. 6 in. coal seam (including bands)." Tracks at contact between coal and shale.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, trace

Collected by L. C. Ball, E. O. Marks, H. A. Longman in 1933–1934, 1946

Collection methods: surface (in situ), peel or thin section,

Primary reference: L. C. Ball. 1933. Fossil footprints. Queensland Government Mining Journal 34(403):384 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 142851: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.04.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

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Reptilia
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Theropoda indet.