Emu's Field, Coocoran (Cretaceous of Australia)

Also known as Coorocran; Emu's; Emu's Fence Line

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

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• in the ‘Finch clay facies’, interspersed within the Wallangulla Sandstone Member of the Griman Creek Formation. Early-middle or middle-late Albian based on pollen

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; gray, yellow claystone

• "grey to buff, montmorillonite-rich clays and siltstones"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: replaced with other

Collected by M. Miltenberg

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: E. T. Smith. 2010. Early Cretaceous chelids from Lightning Ridge, New South Wales. Alcheringa 34:375-384 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 99238: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 03.11.2010, edited by Roger Benson and Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Ornithopoda "indet. A"1 Marsh 1881 ornithopod
AMF106297, dentary
Ankylopollexia indet.1 Sereno 1986 ornithopod
LRF 267, basioccipital-basisphenoid (probably from this locality)
 Saurischia -
Titanosauriformes indet.2 Salgado et al. 1997 sauropod
LRF 0973 and LRF 3309 (teeth)
 Testudinata -
Spoochelys ormondea3 Smith and Kear 2013 turtle
Referred braincase of Spoochelys ormondea LRF-TH451
 Testudines - Chelidae
Chelidae indet. Gray 1825 sideneck turtle
LRF1312