RC13B: Neocomian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Peltaspermopsida - Peltaspermales - Peltaspermaceae
Pachydermophyllum austropapillosum leaf, cuticle
Lycopodiopsida - Isoetales
Minerisporites cf. patagonicus megaspore
common
unclassified
Verrutriletes cf. dubius megaspore
common
Bennettitales
Otozamites boolensis leaf, cuticle
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Victoria
Coordinates: 38.1° South, 146.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:80.1° South, 75.1° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Key time interval:Neocomian
Age range of interval:145.00000 - 130.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Strzelecki Formation:Rintoul Creek Member:Locmany
Regional section:Gippsland Basin
Stratigraphy comments: In the Tyers River Subgroup.
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: The Locmany Member of the Rintoul Creek Formation consists of interbedded quartzose sandstones and fossiliferous siltstones. The lower portion of the Locmany Member contains a few thin, discontinuous, conglomerates and bituminous coal seams. The Locmany Member is the source of the majority of the fossils examined in this study.
Environment:terrestrial indet. Tectonic setting:rift
Geology comments: The Gippsland Basin is a roughly east-west orientated rift and epicratonic sag basin located along the southeastern margin of Victoria, Australia. The basin was initiated in the latest Jurassic or Early Cretaceous as rifting propagated along a roughly west-east axis between Austrailia and Antarctica.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),chemical,sieve,field collection
Minimum sieve size:0.200
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Gippsland Basin, Rintoul Creek 13B
Database number:33743
Authorizer:R. Lupia Enterer:B. Wilborn
Modifier:B. Wilborn Research group:paleobotany
Created:2003-08-06 13:32:00 Last modified:2003-08-07 11:19:21
Access level:the public Released:2003-08-06 13:32:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

8849. S. McLoughlin, A.-M.P. Tosolini, N.S. Nagalingum and A.N. Drinnan. 2002. Early Cretaceous (Neocomian) flora and fauna of the Lower Strzelecki Group, Gippsland Basin, Victoria. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 26:1-144 [R. Lupia/B. Wilborn/B. Wilborn]