West Tank, Giralia Station: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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Dermochelyoidea indet.
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| WAM 03.3.37 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Western Australia |
| Coordinates: | 22.7° South, 114.3° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 49.6° South, 100.7° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Maastrichtian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Miria |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | grainstone |
| Secondary lithology: | marl |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: collected from "marly exposures" | |
| Environment: | marginal marine indet. |
| Geology comments: "low-energy, shallow marine shelf" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | poor |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 106495 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler, M. Carrano | Enterer: | R. Butler, M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-03-21 05:17:11 | Last modified: | 2017-05-23 16:34:15 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-03-21 05:17:11 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 35580. | ETE | B. P. Kear and M. Siverson. 2010. First evidence of a Late Cretaceous sea turtle from Australia. Alcheringa 34:265-272 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |