25 km southeast of Camfield Homestead: Middle Miocene, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Harpacochampsa camfieldensis n. gen., n. sp.
Megirian et al. 1991
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| NTM P87106-1 - holotype (posterolateral portion of the skull with part of the neurocranium); hypodigm: NTM P871 06-5 (anterior portion of the rostrum including both premaxillae and the left maxilla to a point just behind the fifth maxillary tooth); NTM P87106-6 (tip of the right dentary with alveoli for the first and second dentary teeth); NTM P87106-1 9 and NTM P87106-20 (osteoderms) | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Northern Territory |
| Coordinates: | 17.1° South, 131.6° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 26.0° South, 128.3° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Middle Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 15.98000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Camfield Beds |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | calcareous conglomerate |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Calcareous conglomerates, calcarenties and calcilutites | |
| Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | acetic |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Northern Territory Museum collection | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Bullock Creek | ||
| Database number: | 153763 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2014-01-13 11:34:50 | Last modified: | 2014-01-13 11:34:50 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-01-13 11:34:50 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 49815. | D. Megirian, P. F. Murray, and P. Willis. 1991. A new crocodile of the gavial ecomorph morphology from the Miocene of Northern Australia. The Beagle, Records of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 8(1):135-158 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |