Where: Victoria, Australia (38.6° S, 146.0° E: paleocoordinates 77.0° S, 118.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Strzelecki Group, Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)
• THE KOONWARRA FOSSIL BED of South Gippsland, Australia, is =8 m thick, and the invertebrate fossils occur mainly on the lower strata just above an apatite layer dated 118 ± 5 million yr old and below a layer dated 115 ± 5 million yr old (Drinnan & Chambers 1986, Jell & Duncan 1986). Orig. assigned to Korumburra Group.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: pond; lithified claystone and lithified siltstone
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by Talent, Duncan, Handby in 1961; 1962–1967, 1973, 1981, 1985
Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, mechanical, sieve,
• Repository: Palaeontological Collection, Museum of Victoria, Melbourne (NMVP), Palaeontological Collection of the Department of Geology, University of Melbourne (MUGD), Australian Museum, Sydney (AMF)
Primary reference: J. A. Talent, P. M. Duncan, and P. L. Handry. 1966. Early Cretaceous feathers from Victoria. The Emu 64(2):81-86 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 77192: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 28.12.2007, edited by Matthew Carrano, Jered Karr and Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Leptolepis koonwarri13 Waldman 1971 | |
Koonwarria manifrons13 Waldman 1971
Wadeichthys oxyops13 Waldman 1971 | |
Osteichthyes | |
| |
Reptilia | |
| |
Aves | |
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird Geol. Surv. Victoria 61831A, B; 61832; NMV P26059, P32192, P165474, P186879, P250594
| |
| |
Osteichthyes | |
| |
Bivalvia | |
| |
Phylactolaemata | |
| |
Clitellata | |
| |
Insecta | |
Eodinotoperla duncanae n. gen. n. sp.7
| |
? Methana sp.7 Stal 1877 cockroach NMV P22658, 27046, 102514, 102532, 103121, 103122, 103160, 103161, 103174, 103225-103230, 103231, 27045
| |
| |
"? Gryllacridoidea indet." = Stenopelmatoidea7
| |
Koonwarrus katya n. gen. n. sp.12
Koonwarrus katya n. gen. n. sp.12 Rasnitsyn and Öhm-Kühnle 2019 wasp NMVP 103324 (one paratype of Westratia nana)
| |
Cretacoformica explicata n. gen. n. sp.7
| |
| |
"? Pemphredoninae indet." = Pemphredonidae7
| |
"? Bethyloidea indet." = Chrysidoidea7
| |
Westratia nana n. gen. n. sp.7
| |
| |
Eoichneumon duncanae n. gen. n. sp.7
| |
Coleoptera indet.14 Linnaeus 1758 beetle NMV P102521, 102523, 102525, 102528, 102802, 102806, 103170-2, 103175, 103312, 103314, 103316-8, 103326, 103329
| |
| |
Dytiscidae "indet. 2"7 Leach 1815 predaceous diving beetle NMV P102603, 102669, 103149-103153, 103177, 103296, 103298-103302, 103330, 32288, 103155, 103159, 103162, 103169
| |
| |
Scirtidae indet.16 Fleming 1821 marsh beetle NMV P27051-3, 102644, 103303-8, 103327; 102645 in Watts & Hamon 2023
| |
Chauliognathus koonwarra n. sp.3
| |
| |
| |
Hydrophilidae indet.7 Latreille 1802 water scavenger beetle NMV P102522, 102526, 102768, 103156, 103310, 103313, 103315
Cretoxenus australis n. gen. n. sp.4 Fikáček et al. 2014 water scavenger beetle NMVP103312 (one of Coleoptera indet. in Jell & Duncan, 1986; fig. 40I-K)
| |
| |
| |
| |
Neoparachorista clarkae n. sp.7
| |
Orthophlebiidae indet.8 Handlirsch 1906 scorpionfly NMVP103336 (one of Limoniinae indet. in Jell & Duncan 1986)
| |
"Prochoristella leongatha n. sp." = Australochorista leongatha7
"Prochoristella leongatha n. sp." = Australochorista leongatha7 Jell and Duncan 1986 scorpionfly NMVP102512
| |
| |
Niwratia elongata n. gen. n. sp.7
| |
Tarwinia australis n. gen. n. sp.7
| |
| |
| |
Duncanovelia extensa n. gen. n. sp.7
| |
| |
| |
Homopterulum jelli n. sp.6 Hamilton 1992 true bug NMV P102676, 103234, 103238, 103239, 103103, 27043, 103338 (not 32283)
| |
"Scarites femoratus n. gen. n. sp." = Austroscarites femoratus6
"Scarites femoratus n. gen. n. sp." = Austroscarites femoratus6 Hamilton 1992 leafhopper MUGD 3578, NMV P32283 (Cicadelloidea indet. 1 in Jell & Duncan, 1986)
| |
Ligavena gracilipes n. gen. n. sp.6
| |
"Edgariekia una n. gen. n. sp." = Undacypha una7
| |
Peraphlebia tetrastichia n. gen. n. sp.7
| |
Coenagrionidae indet.7 Kirby 1890 narrow-winged damselfly NMV P27039, 102508, 102509, 102510, 103019, 103047, 103211, MUGD3738
| |
Australurus plexus n. gen. n. sp.7, Dulcimanna sculptor n. gen. n. sp.7, Promirara cephalota n. gen. n. sp.7
Australurus plexus n. gen. n. sp.7 Jell and Duncan 1986 mayfly NMV P102450, 22398, 48610, 52550, 102455-7, 102465, 102475-6, 102478-9, 102492, 102538, 102619, 102893, 103120, 103222, MUGD3747, 3748, 3754, further 100 or more
| |
Koonwarrabaetisca duncani n. sp.5 Godunko and Sroka 2024 armored mayfly NMVP103209 (part of ?Siphlonuridae indet. in Jell & Duncan)
| |
| |
Atherimorpha festuca n. sp.7
| |
| |
Simuliidae "indet. 1"7 Newman 1834 black fly NMVP103050, 103131, 103132, 103178-81, 103183, 103189, 103194, 103270-4
| |
| |
Chironomaptera collessi n. sp.7
Chironomaptera collessi n. sp.7 Jell and Duncan 1986 phantom midge NMVP103207, 27047, 102678, 103139, 103185, 103191, 103253, 103255-7, 103349 (pupae), 103258, 103262-3, 103265-7, 103269 (larvae)
| |
Synneuron jelli n. sp.1
| |
Tanypodinae "pupa indet. 1"7 Skuse 1889 non biting midge NMVP102496, 103137, 103138, 103187, 27048, 103140, 103141, 103143, 103144, 103146, 103186, 103195-201, 103278-80, MUGD3733
| |
Pseudalysiinia fragmenta n. sp.7
| |
Tipulidae "larva indet."7, Tipulidae "pupa indet. 2"7, ? Tipulidae indet.7, Tipulidae "pupa indet. 1"7
| |
| |
Branchiopoda | |
| |
| |
| |
Ostracoda | |
| |
Malacostraca | |
Koonaspides indistinctus n. gen. n. sp.7
| |
Xiphosura | |
Victalimulus mcqueeni n. gen. n. sp.15
| |
Arachnida | |
| |
|