RC31A (Cretaceous of Australia)

Also known as Gippsland Basin, Rintoul Creek 31A

Where: Victoria, Australia (38.1° S, 146.5° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 84.0° S, 138.8° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Locmany Member (Rintoul Creek Formation), Neocomian (145.0 - 125.8 Ma)

• In the Tyers River Subgroup.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

• The Gippsland Basin is a roughly east-west orientated rift and epicratonic sag basin located along the southeastern margin of Victoria, Australia. The basin was initiated in the latest Jurassic or Early Cretaceous as rifting propagated along a roughly west-east axis between Austrailia and Antarctica.
• The Locmany Member of the Rintoul Creek Formation consists of interbedded quartzose sandstones and fossiliferous siltstones. The lower portion of the Locmany Member contains a few thin, discontinuous, conglomerates and bituminous coal seams. The Locmany Member is the source of the majority of the fossils examined in this study.

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Collection methods: surface (in situ), chemical, sieve,

Primary reference: S. McLoughlin, A.-M.P. Tosolini, N.S. Nagalingum and A.N. Drinnan. 2002. Early Cretaceous (Neocomian) flora and fauna of the Lower Strzelecki Group, Gippsland Basin, Victoria. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 26:1-144 [R. Lupia/B. Wilborn/B. Wilborn]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 33928: authorized by Rick Lupia, entered by Brooke Wilborn on 08.08.2003

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Trikonia locmaniensis, Plantae "Podocarpacean pollen cluster"
Erlansonisporites
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Erlansonisporites confertus
Lycopodiopsida
 Isoetales -
Minerisporites cf. patagonicus