Where: Victoria, Australia (38.6° S, 146.0° E: paleocoordinates 77.0° S, 118.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Strzelecki Group, Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)

• THE KOONWARRA FOSSIL BED of South Gippsland, Australia, is =8 m thick, and the invertebrate fossils occur mainly on the lower strata just above an apatite layer dated 118 ± 5 million yr old and below a layer dated 115 ± 5 million yr old (Drinnan & Chambers 1986, Jell & Duncan 1986). Orig. assigned to Korumburra Group.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: pond; lithified claystone and lithified siltstone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Talent, Duncan, Handby in 1961; 1962–1967, 1973, 1981, 1985

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, mechanical, sieve,

• Repository: Palaeontological Collection, Museum of Victoria, Melbourne (NMVP), Palaeontological Collection of the Department of Geology, University of Melbourne (MUGD), Australian Museum, Sydney (AMF)

Primary reference: J. A. Talent, P. M. Duncan, and P. L. Handry. 1966. Early Cretaceous feathers from Victoria. The Emu 64(2):81-86 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 77192: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 28.12.2007, edited by Matthew Carrano, Jered Karr and Matthew Clapham

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