Rhondda Colliery tracksite, Ipswich: Norian, Australia
collected 1964

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Otozoidae
cf. Eubrontes sp. Hitchcock 1845
1 specimen
QM F5474
    = Eubrontes sp. Hitchcock 1845
Haubold 1971
    = Eubrontes cf. giganteus Hitchcock 1836
Lucas et al. 2006
    = Evazoum sp. Nicosia and Loi 2003
Romilio et al. 2021
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Queensland
Coordinates: 27.6° South, 152.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:58.7° South, 101.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Late/Upper Triassic
Stage:Norian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 4
Key time interval:Norian
Age range of interval:227.00000 - 208.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Ipswich Coal Measures Formation:Blackstone Member:Striped Bacon Seam
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: ca. 20 m above base of formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: coal
Secondary lithology: siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: tracks preserved as casts in siltstone overlying the Striped Bacon coal seam
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection dates:1964
Metadata
Also known as:Dinmore, Rhonda Colliery
Database number:142852
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-04-17 05:47:10 Last modified:2022-02-18 09:57:34
Access level:the public Released:2013-04-17 05:47:10
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
46360. H. R. E. Staines and J. T. Woods. 1964. Recent discovery of Triassic dinosaur footprints in Queensland. The Australian Jounal of Science 27(2):55 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

65176 Anonymous. 1965. Dinosaur footprints on the ceiling. Science Digest 57(4) [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
46357 A. Bartholomai. 1966. Fossil footprints in Queensland. Australian Natural History 15:147-150 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
29189ETE H. Haubold. 1971. In O. Kuhn (ed.), Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie / Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology. Part 18. Ichnia Amphibiorum et Reptiliorum Fossilium 1-124 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
54055 D. Hill, G. Playford, and J. T. Woods. 1965. Triassic fossils of Queensland. In D. Hill, G. Playford, & J. T. Woods (eds.), Triassic Fossils of Queensland t.1-t.32 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
65481 S. G. Lucas, H. Klein, M. G. Lockley, J. A. Spielmann, G. D. Gierlinski, A. P. Hunt, and L. H. Tanner. 2006. Triassic-Jurassic stratigraphic distribution of the theropod footprint ichnogenus Eubrontes. In J. D. Harris, S. G. Lucas, J. A. Spielmann, M. G. Lockley, A. R. C. Milner, & J. I. Kirkland (eds.), The Triassic-Jurassic Terrestrial Transition. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 37:86-93 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
62835 G. May. 1966. Dinosaur footprints. Frontiers 30(3):83 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
63423 R. E. Molnar. 1991. Fossil reptiles in Australia. In P. Vickers-Rich, J. M. Monaghan, R. F. Baird, & T. H. Rich (eds.), Vertebrate Paleontology of Australasia 605-702 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
79967 A. Romilio, H. Klein, A. Jannel and S. W. Salisbury. 2021. Saurischian dinosaur tracks from the Upper Triassic of southern Queensland: possible evidence for Australia’s earliest sauropodomorph trackmaker. Historical Biology [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
79070 J. D. Scanlon. 2006. Dinosaurs and other Mesozoic reptiles of Australasia. In J. R. Merrick, M. Archer, G. M. Hickey, & M. S. Y. Lee (eds.), Evolution and Biogeography of Australasian Vertebrates 265-290 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]