Palliamandera Creek, Bathurst Island (Cretaceous of Australia)

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

• 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 37714: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 22.03.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae
"Collignoniceras cf. woolgari" = Collignoniceras woollgari
"Collignoniceras cf. woolgari" = Collignoniceras woollgari Mantell 1822 ammonite
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Torynommidae