Moonshine, Coocoran Opal Field (Cretaceous of Australia)

Also known as Coocoran opal field

Where: New South Wales, Australia (29.5° S, 147.8° E: paleocoordinates 59.3° S, 140.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wallangulla Sandstone Member (Griman Creek Formation), Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• middle Albian

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; claystone

• soft, whitish clay

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: T. F. Flannery, M. Archer, T. H. Rich and R. Jones. 1995. A new family of monotremes from the Cretaceous of Australia. Nature 377:418-420 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 95861: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 03.05.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842 dinosaur
 Avetheropoda -
Carnosauria indet. Huene 1920 carnosaur
 Testudines -
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle
Mammalia
 Monotremata - Kollikodontidae
Kollikodon ritchiei n. gen. n. sp.
Kollikodon ritchiei n. gen. n. sp. Flannery et al. 1995 monotreme