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
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 indet. Owen 1842 dinosaur | |
Carnosauria indet. Huene 1920 carnosaur | |
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle | |
Mammalia | |
Kollikodon ritchiei n. gen. n. sp.
Kollikodon ritchiei n. gen. n. sp. Flannery et al. 1995 monotreme |