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
Chelidae indet. Gray 1825
1 specimen
LRF1312
Reptilia
Spoochelys ormondea Smith and Kear 2013
Smith and Kear 2013 1 specimen
Referred braincase of Spoochelys ormondea LRF-TH451
Ornithopoda informal indet. A (Marsh 1881)
Bell et al. 2018 1 specimen
AMF106297, dentary
Ankylopollexia indet. Sereno 1986
Bell et al. 2018 1 specimen
LRF 267, basioccipital-basisphenoid (probably from this locality)
Titanosauriformes indet. Salgado et al. 1997
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]