UQL-DP3 tracksite (PROXY): Valanginian - Barremian, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Yangtzepus clarkei
Salisbury et al. 2016
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| UQL-DP3-8, mold of L pes (mislabeled DP9-8 in text) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Western Australia |
| Coordinates: | 17.5° South, 122.1° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 50.5° South, 86.9° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Key time interval: | Valanginian - Barremian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 139.80000 - 121.40000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Broome Sandstone | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: mid-Valanginian to mid-Barremian | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | fine,coarse,quartzose lithified sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: interbedded siltstones and sandstones; a well-cemented, fine to coarse quartzarenite to lithic sandstone | |
| Environment: | delta plain |
| Geology comments: sheet floods within the braid plain portion of a tidally influenced delta | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression,trace |
| Degree of concentration: | concentrated |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Abundance in sediment: | common |
| Associated major elements: | many |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Yanijarri-Lurujarri | ||
| Database number: | 185867 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2017-05-22 16:42:21 | Last modified: | 2017-05-23 16:34:15 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-05-22 16:42:21 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 62321. | S. W. Salisbury, A. Romilio, M. C. Herne, R. T. Tucker, and J. P. Nair. 2016. The Dinosaurian Ichnofauna of the Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian–Barremian) Broome Sandstone of the Walmadany Area (James Price Point), Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 16. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(6, suppl.):1-152 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |