Steen's Rush, Coocoran: Early/Lower Cenomanian, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Chelidae
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Chelidae indet.
Gray 1825
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| LRF 458 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | New South Wales |
| Coordinates: | 29.4° South, 147.8° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 59.3° South, 140.5° 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: | 100.50000 - 93.90000 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 |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| 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 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Coorocran | ||
| Database number: | 99239 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-11-03 13:36:37 | Last modified: | 2019-09-26 12:58:46 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-11-03 13:36:37 |
| 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] |