Moonkinu Creek, Bathurst Island (Cretaceous of Australia)

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: Moonkinu Member (Bathurst Island Formation), Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• 3-5 m below "Tapara Bed"

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, silty claystone and glauconitic sandstone

• grey silt clays and glauconitic sands (one of the seven is preserved in the sands, but doesn't specify which)

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 37711: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 22.03.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Acanthoceras sp.
Acanthoceras sp. Neumayr 1875 ammonite
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Torynommidae
Torynomma (Paratorynomma) dentatum n. subgen. n. sp.
Torynomma (Paratorynomma) dentatum n. subgen. n. sp. Glaessner 1980 crab
holotype and paratype