Rosewood Colliery (Jurassic of Australia)

Also known as PGAP 819

Where: Queensland, Australia (27.6° S, 152.6° E: paleocoordinates 67.6° S, 92.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Walloon Coal Measures Formation, Middle Jurassic (174.7 - 161.5 Ma)

• Coal seams #3 to #4. Dated as Middle Jurassic by palynoflora

Environment/lithology:

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. F. Rigby. 1978. Jurassic plant fossils from the Walloon Coal Measures at Rosewood Consolidated Colliery. Queensland Government Mining Journal 526-529 [A. Rees/A. Rees]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 29459: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Allister Rees on 02.04.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• List from p. 528. Genus-level assignments and numbers of species are from the PGAP database. Species names are in the process of being entered.
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Polypodiopsida
  -
Cladophlebis "sp. 1"
Cladophlebis "sp. 1" Brongniart 1849
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Equisetites "sp. 1"
Equisetites "sp. 1" Sternberg 1833
 Cyatheales - Polypodiidae
Coniopteris "sp. 1"
Coniopteris "sp. 1" Brongniart 1849 scaly tree fern
Sphenopteridae
  - Sphenopteridae
Sphenopteris "sp. 1"
Sphenopteris "sp. 1" Sternberg 1825
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Pagiophyllum "sp. 1"
Cycadopsida
 Cycadales -
Taeniopteris "sp. 1"
Taeniopteris "sp. 1" Brongniart 1828 cycads
Lycopodiopsida
 Lycopodiales - Lycopodiaceae
Lycopodites "sp. 1"
Lycopodites "sp. 1" Brongniart 1822 clubmoss