Where: New South Wales, Australia (29.5° S, 147.8° E: paleocoordinates 59.3° S, 140.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Coptospora paradoxa pollen zone, Wallangulla Sandstone Member (Griman Creek Formation), Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• From Bell et al. 2019: U-Pb age dating of detrital zircons extracted from a distinct layer of volcanogenic claystone immediately overlying one of the opalised fossil-bearing layers yields a maximum depositional age of 100.2–96.6 Ma. These new dates confirm an early to mid-Cenomanian age for the fauna, rather than Albian, as has been reported previously.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: R. E. Molnar. 1999. Avian tibiotarsi from the Early Cretaceous of Lightning Ridge, New South Wales. Proceedings of the Second Gondwana Dinosaur Symposium, Y. Tomida, T. H. Rich and P. Vickers-Rich (eds.), National Science Museum Monographs 15:197-209 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 38543: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.04.2004, edited by Philip Mannion

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