Bowen Basin L5536: Longtanian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Equisetopsida - Araucariaceae
Dadoxylon nicoli axis
Seward
Araucarioxylon sp. axis Kraus 1870
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Queensland
Coordinates: 24.0° South, 148.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:59.2° South, 140.6° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Permian Epoch:Lopingian
Stage:Wuchiapingian 10 m.y. bin:Permian 4
*Period:Late/Upper Permian
*International age/stage:Longtanian
Key time interval:Longtanian
Age range of interval:259.51000 - 254.14000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Back Creek Formation:Black Alley Shale
Regional section:Bowen Basin (Denison Trough)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Environment:lacustrine indet. Tectonic setting:foreland basin
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),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:21088
Authorizer:H. Sims Enterer:H. Lindon
Modifier:A. McGowan Research group:paleobotany
Created:2002-06-17 06:18:08 Last modified:2003-10-01 15:06:49
Access level:the public Released:2002-06-17 06:18:08
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]