PBDB Collection

RC39 (Cretaceous of Australia)

Also known as Gippsland Basin, Rintoul Creek 39

Where: Victoria, Australia (38.1° S, 146.5° E: paleocoordinates 80.1° S, 75.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Exalt 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 Exalt Member of the Rintoul Creek Formation consists of thick quartzose to feldspathic sandstone packages interbedded with minor siltstones. This locality consists of sandstone and siltstone. It has cross-laminae, discontinuous sandstone lenses, and fragmentary foliage (unidentifiable).

Size classes: macrofossils, 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 33943: authorized by Rick Lupia, entered by Brooke Wilborn on 10.08.2003

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
-	Favososporites brevis, Maexisporites "sp. A", Maexisporites "sp. B", Plantae "Seed megaspore membrane Type A" Favososporites brevis occurs sparsely Maexisporites "sp. A" sparse Maexisporites "sp. B" Plantae "Seed megaspore membrane Type A" Haeckel 1866
Erlansonisporites
-	Erlansonisporites confertus Erlansonisporites confertus common element
Hughesisporites
-	Hughesisporites australis Hughesisporites australis rare
Lycopodiopsida
Isoetales -	Minerisporites cf. patagonicus Minerisporites cf. patagonicus clubmoss common
Verrutriletes
-	Verrutriletes cf. dubius Verrutriletes cf. dubius ?common
Pinopsida
-	"Coniferopsida ? Podocarpacean cuticle Type I" = Pinopsida "Coniferopsida ? Podocarpacean cuticle Type I" = Pinopsida Burnett 1833
Paxillitriletes
-	Paxillitriletes rintoulensis Paxillitriletes rintoulensis rare