Where: Northern Territory, Australia (11.6° S, 130.4° E: paleocoordinates 39.7° S, 119.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Bathurst Island Formation, Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)
• Lower Turonian, upper part of Bathurst Island Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray, silty claystone and glauconitic sandstone
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 37714: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 22.03.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Collignoniceras cf. woolgari" = Collignoniceras woollgari
"Collignoniceras cf. woolgari" = Collignoniceras woollgari Mantell 1822 ammonite | |
Malacostraca | |
Torynomma (Paratorynomma) dentatum Glaessner 1980 crab |