Westvale No. 6 Colliery tracksite: Middle Jurassic, Australia
collected 1948
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Dinosauria indet.
(Owen 1842)
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| tracks | ||||||||||
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= Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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Molnar 1982 | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Queensland |
| Coordinates: | 27.0° South, 152.6° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 67.2° South, 93.3° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Middle Jurassic |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 3-5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Middle Jurassic | ||
| Age range of interval: | 174.70000 - 161.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Walloon Coal Measures |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "shale" |
| Secondary lithology: | coal |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "a 12-in. shale band centrally situated in a 13-ft. coal-bearing section" | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | cast,trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),peel or thin section,observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | Collection dates: | 1948 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Lowfield No. 2, Wass Seam | ||
| Database number: | 142854 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-04-17 06:49:11 | Last modified: | 2022-01-13 15:18:51 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-04-17 06:49:11 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 46364. | Anonymous. 1952. Dinosaur footprints. Queensland Government Mining Journal 53(613):949-950 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 63623 | J. B. Cameron. 1970. The Rosewood-Walloon coalfield. Geological Survey of Queensland Publication 344:1-42 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 46279 | R. E. H. Molnar. 1982. A catalogue of fossil amphibians and reptiles in Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 20(3):613-633 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 79070 | J. D. Scanlon. 2006. Dinosaurs and other Mesozoic reptiles of Australasia. In J. R. Merrick, M. Archer, G. M. Hickey, & M. S. Y. Lee (eds.), Evolution and Biogeography of Australasian Vertebrates 265-290 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |