Emu's Field, Coocoran: Early/Lower Cenomanian, Australia
collected by M. Miltenberg
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Chelidae
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Chelidae indet.
Gray 1825
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1 specimen | |||||||||
LRF1312 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Spoochelys ormondea
Smith and Kear 2013
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Smith and Kear 2013 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Referred braincase of Spoochelys ormondea LRF-TH451 | ||||||||||
Ornithopoda informal indet. A
(Marsh 1881)
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Bell et al. 2018 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
AMF106297, dentary | ||||||||||
Ankylopollexia indet.
Sereno 1986
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Bell et al. 2018 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
LRF 267, basioccipital-basisphenoid (probably from this locality) | ||||||||||
Titanosauriformes indet.
Salgado et al. 1997
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Frauenfelder et al. 2021 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
LRF 0973 and LRF 3309 (teeth) | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Australia | State/province: | New South Wales |
Coordinates: | 29.5° South, 147.8° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 59.3° South, 140.4° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
Altitude: | 169 meters | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Cenomanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 5 |
Key time interval: | Early/Lower Cenomanian | Pollen zone: | Coptospora paradoxa |
Age range of interval: | 99.60000 - 93.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Rolling Downs | Formation: | Griman Creek | Member: | Wallangulla Sandstone |
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: in the ‘Finch clay facies’, interspersed within the Wallangulla Sandstone Member of the Griman Creek Formation. Early-middle or middle-late Albian based on pollen |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | gray,yellow claystone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "grey to buff, montmorillonite-rich clays and siltstones" | |
Environment: | estuary/bay |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,replaced with other |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
Fragmentation: | frequent |
Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,survey of museum collection |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Collectors: | M. Miltenberg |
Metadata
Also known as: | Coorocran; Emu's; Emu's Fence Line | ||
Database number: | 99238 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano, R. Benson, P. Mannion | Enterer: | M. Carrano, R. Benson, P. Mannion |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2010-11-03 13:35:08 | Last modified: | 2022-08-29 19:35:27 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-11-03 13:35:08 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
34132. | ETE | E. T. Smith. 2010. Early Cretaceous chelids from Lightning Ridge, New South Wales. Alcheringa 34:375-384 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
82489 | P. R. Bell, F. Fanti, L. J. Hart, L. A. Milan, S. J. Craven, T. Brougham, and E. T. Smith. 2019. Revised geology, age, and vertebrate diversity of the dinosaur-bearing Griman Creek Formation (Cenomanian), Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 514:655-671 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
70317 | P. R. Bell, M. C. Herne, T. Brougham and E. T. Smith. 2018. Ornithopod diversity in the Griman Creek Formation (Cenomanian), New South Wales, Australia. PeerJ 6:e6008:1-40 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
74243 | T. G. Frauenfelder, N. E. Campione, E. T. Smith and P. R. Bell. 2021. Diversity and palaeoecology of Australia's southern‐most sauropods, Griman Creek Formation (Cenomanian), New South Wales, Australia. Lethaia 54:354-367 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano] | |
76422 | S. F. Poropat. 2019. Final report. Winston Churchill Memorial Trust of Australia 1-56 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
43064 | E. T. Smith and B. P. Kear. 2013. Spoochelys ormondea gen. et sp. nov., an Archaic Meiolaniid-Like Turtle from the Early Cretaceous of Lightning Ridge, Australia. In D. B. Brinkman, P. A. Holroyd, J. D. Gardner (eds.), Morphology and Evolution of Turtles 121-146 [R. Benson/R. Benson/P. Holroyd] |