Also known as Bathurst Island Oil Development Well No. 2

Where: Northern Territory, Australia (11.6° S, 130.4° E: paleocoordinates 40.0° S, 117.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bathurst Island Formation, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• core from 280 m depth

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. F. Glaessner. 1980. New Cretaceous and Tertiary crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura) from Australia and New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 104(6):171-192 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 37706: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 22.03.2004

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