South-east of Cockabutta Mountain (Triassic of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (32.2° S, 149.7° E: paleocoordinates 62.2° S, 106.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hawkesbury Formation, Triassic (251.9 - 201.4 Ma)

• thought to belong to the Hawkesbury "series" and therefore Triassic

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified, ferruginous, red shale

• "a bed of hard red ferruginous shale, about a foot in thickness"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by T. W. Edgeworth David, E. F. Pittman

• possibly in the collection of the Geological Survey of New South Wales (Pittman's employer)

Primary reference: A. S. Woodward. 1895. The fossil fishes of the Talbragar Beds (Jurassic?). Memoirs of the Geological Survey of New South Wales 9:1-31 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 132305: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 12.08.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Sphenopteridae
  - Sphenopteridae
Sphenopteris sp.
Sphenopteris sp. Sternberg 1825
Cycadopsida
 Cycadales -
Taeniopteris sp.
Taeniopteris sp. Brongniart 1828 cycads
 Pteridospermales -
Thinnfeldia sp., Thinnfeldia odontopteroides
Thinnfeldia sp. Ettingshausen 1852 cycads
Thinnfeldia odontopteroides Morris 1845 cycads
Ginkgoopsida
 Caytoniales - Caytoniaceae
"Phyllopteris feistmanteli" = Sagenopteris
"Phyllopteris feistmanteli" = Sagenopteris
 Ginkgoales - Ginkgoaceae
cf. Baiera sp.
cf. Baiera sp. Braun 1843
"Detached leaves referable to Baiera or an allied plant most probably"
Pteropsida
 Filicinae -
"Alethopteris australis" = Pecopteris (Alethopteris)
"Alethopteris australis" = Pecopteris (Alethopteris)