Stuart Deposit, The Narrows Graben (Kerosene Creek) (Eocene to of Australia)

Also known as Gladstone

Where: Queensland, Australia (23.7° S, 151.0° E: paleocoordinates 43.8° S, 147.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kerosene Creek Member (Rundle Formation), Middle Eocene to Middle Eocene (48.6 - 33.9 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; mudstone

• Lagoonal and lacustrine

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Collection methods: chemical

Primary reference: L. A. Buchanan. 2009. Kambara taraina sp. nov. (Crocodylia, Crocodyloidea), a New Eocene Mekosuchine from Queensland, Australia, and a revision of the genus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(2):473-486 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 143208: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 20.04.2013, edited by David Nicholson

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Crocodylia -
Kambara taraina n. sp. Buchanan 2009 crocodilian
QM F49454 - type (nearly complete skull); paratypes: NMV P220503 (nearly complete skull) and NMV P22504 (nearly complete lower jaw)
 Testudinata - Meiolaniidae
Meiolaniidae indet. Lydekker 1887 turtle
NMV P251917, NMV P2519, NMV P251916