Mutdapilly fossil locality: Middle Jurassic, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Sphenopteridae
Sphenopteris sp. leaf, sterile axis Sternberg 1825
Polypodiopsida
Cladophlebis australis leaf, fertile axis
(Morris) Seward
Cladophlebis informal sp. A leaf, sterile axis
Polypodiopsida - Gleicheniales - Dipteridaceae
Polypodiopsida - Equisetales - Equisetaceae
Equisetum bryanii sterile axis, leaf
Gould
Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
cf. Elatocladus confertus sterile axis, leaf (Feistmantel 1877)
(Oldham & Morris) Halle
Pinopsida - Pinales - Taxaceae
Palissya ovalis seed repro
Parris
Cycadopsida - Cycadales
Taeniopteris cf. spatulata leaf, sterile axis McClelland 1850
unclassified
Tracheophyta indet. leaf, axis Sinnott 1935
The specimens are reminiscent of detached cycadalean or bennettitalean pinnules but none can be identified with certainty
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Queensland County:Mutdapilly
Coordinates: 27.8° South, 152.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:67.9° South, 112.2° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Middle Jurassic
10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 3-5
*Period:Middle Jurassic
Key time interval: Middle Jurassic
Age range of interval: 174.7 - 161.5 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Regional section:Clarence Moreton Basin
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,yellow "shale"
Secondary lithology: siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: fossils preserved as borwn iron-stained impressions in yellow-gray shale and siltstone. No organic matter preserved (no cuticle).
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:21196
Authorizer:H. Sims Enterer:H. Lindon
Modifier:H. Sims Research group:paleobotany
Created:2002-06-20 06:37:01 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2002-06-20 06:37:01
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
6493. S. McLoughlin and A. N. Drinnan. 1995. A Middle Jurassic Flora from the Walloon Coal Measures, Mutdapilly, Queensland, Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museam 38(1):257-272 [H. Sims/H. Lindon/H. Lindon]