Bowen Basin L3782: Longtanian - Changhsingian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cycadopsida - Cycadales - Nilssoniaceae
Pseudoctenis sp. leaf Seward 1911
Bennettitales
Pterophyllum sp. leaf Brongniart 1828
Pteridopsida - Filicales
Neomariopteris lobifolia sterile axis, leaf (Morris 1845)
(Morris) Maithy
Polypodiopsida
Trizygia speciosa axis, leaf Royle 1840
Royle 1840 emend. Pant & Mehra
Polypodiopsida - Equisetales - Equisetaceae
Schizoneura gondwanensis axis, leaf Feistmantel 1879
Feistmantel
Polypodiopsida - Equisetales - Phyllothecaceae
Lelstotheca sp. axis, leaf Maheshwari 1972
Phyllotheca australis leaf Brongniart 1828
Brongniart
Arberiopsida - Arberiales
Vertebraria indica axis Royle 1839
Royle
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Queensland
Coordinates: 23.0° South, 148.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:57.8° South, 139.5° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Permian Epoch: Lopingian
Stage: Wuchiapingian - Changhsingian 10 m.y. bin: Permian 4
*Period:Middle Permian - Late/Upper Permian
*International age/stage:Changxingian
Key time interval: Longtanian - Changhsingian
Age range of interval: 259.51 - 251.902 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Blackwater Formation:Rangal Coal Measures
Regional section:Bowen Basin (Comet Platform)
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Environment:fluvial indet. Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Geology comments: Based on equivalency to Bandanna Fm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,original carbon
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:21046
Authorizer:H. Sims Enterer:H. Lindon
Modifier:A. McGowan Research group:paleobotany
Created:2002-06-14 18:46:10 Last modified:2003-10-01 12:35:22
Access level:the public Released:2002-06-14 18:46:10
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

6458. S. McLoughlin. 1992. Late Permian Plant Megafossils from the Bowen Basin, Queensland, Australia: Part 1. Palaeontographica Abteilung B 228:105-149 [H. Sims/H. Lindon/J. Alroy]