Westvale No. 5 Colliery tracksite: Middle Jurassic, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Avetheropoda
2 specimens
QM F5700, F12221
Hill et al. 1966
Haubold 1971
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Queensland
Coordinates: 27.0° South, 152.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:67.3° South, 113.3° East (Wright 2013)
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: 174.7 - 161.5 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Walloon Coal Measures
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: coal
Includes fossils?Y
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,field collection,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:142853
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-04-17 05:54:22 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2013-04-17 05:54:22
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
46357. A. Bartholomai. 1966. Fossil footprints in Queensland. Australian Natural History 15:147-150 [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]
29189ETE H. Haubold. 1971. Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie / Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology. Part 18. Ichnia Amphibiorum et Reptiliorum Fossilium. 1-124 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen]
54012 D. Hill, G. Playford, and J. T. Woods. 1966. Jurassic fossils of Queensland. In D. Hill, G. Playford, & J. T. Woods (eds.), Jurassic Fossils of Queensland j.1-j.32 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
63423 R. E. Molnar. 1991. Fossil reptiles in Australia. In P. Vickers-Rich, J. M. Monaghan, R. F. Baird, & T. H. Rich (eds.), Vertebrate Paleontology of Australasia 605-702 [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]
89724 S. F. Poropat, P. R. Bell, L. J. Hart, S. W. Salisbury, and B. P. Kear. 2023. An annotated checklist of Australian Mesozoic tetrapods. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 47(2):129-205 [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]