Balgowan Colliery tracksite, Darling Downs: Middle Jurassic, Australia
collected by W. Burns, W. Godfrey, C. C. Morton, R. E. Gould 1950–1951, 1966
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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| Bartholomai 1966 | ||||||||||
| QM F3278, F5702 | ||||||||||
| Hill et al. 1966 | ||||||||||
| Molnar 1980 | ||||||||||
| "large pentadactyl tracks representing a quadrupedal dinosaur" | ||||||||||
| Hill et al. 1966 | ||||||||||
| QM F5701 | ||||||||||
| Salisbury et al. 2016 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Queensland |
| Coordinates: | 27.5° South, 150.5° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 66.5° South, 108.9° East (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Altitude: | 315 meters | ||
| 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: | "shale" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "roof shale" | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection,observed (not collected) | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Collectors: | W. Burns, W. Godfrey, C. C. Morton, R. E. Gould | Collection dates: | 1950–1951, 1966 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Roughrigg, United, Rosalie | ||
| Database number: | 60755 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-05-22 11:25:30 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-05-22 11:25:30 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 46362. | Anonymous. 1951. Giant dinosaur's footprints found in Darling Downs colliery. Queensland Government Mining Journal 52(598):582 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 46363 | Anonymous. 1952. Dinosaur's footprint in Downs colliery. Queensland Government Mining Journal 53(604):107 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 46364 | Anonymous. 1952. Dinosaur footprints. Queensland Government Mining Journal 53(613):949-950 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 46357 | A. Bartholomai. 1966. Fossil footprints in Queensland. Australian Natural History 15:147-150 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 56365 | F. S. Colliver. 1954. Triassic footprints in Queensland. Queensland Naturalist 15(3/4):78-79 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 8231 | PGAP 29 | R. E. Gould. 1974. The fossil flora of the Walloon Coal Measures: a survey. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 85(3):33-41 [A. Rees/A. Rees/M. Carrano] |
| 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] | |
| 10348 | R. E. Molnar. 1980. Australian late Mesozoic continental tetrapods: some implications. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France, Nouvelle Série 139:131-143 [M. Carrano/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] | |
| 18059 | ETE | T. H. Rich and P. Vickers-Rich. 2003. A Century of Australian Dinosaurs. Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery and Monash Science Centre, Monash University 1-124 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 62321 | S. W. Salisbury, A. Romilio, M. C. Herne, R. T. Tucker, and J. P. Nair. 2016. The Dinosaurian Ichnofauna of the Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian–Barremian) Broome Sandstone of the Walmadany Area (James Price Point), Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 16. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(6, suppl.):1-152 [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] | |
| 82494 | T. Thulborn. 1990. Dinosaur Tracks 1-410 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |