Where: New South Wales, Australia (33.7° S, 151.3° E: paleocoordinates 65.5° S, 139.1° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Bulgo Sandstone Formation (Narrabeen Group), Dienerian to Dienerian (250.5 - 247.2 Ma)
• "Age determinations for the Bulgo Sandstone based on palynology, plant macrofossils and sequence stratigraphy indicate a mid-Early Triassic, i.e. Dienerian–early Spathian range" (Kear 2009). Within the Clifton Subgroup.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; ferruginous, gray sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. Suter, A. Ritchie, R. Jones
Collection methods: surface (float), mechanical,
• SAM: South Australian Museum, Adelaide
•AM: Australian Museum
Primary reference: R. J. Damiani. 1999. Giant temnospondyl amphibians from the Early to Middle Triassic Narrabeen Group of the Sydney Basin, New South Wales, Australia. Alcheringa 23:87-109 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 117150: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 16.09.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Bulgosuchus gargantua n. gen. n. sp.
Bulgosuchus gargantua n. gen. n. sp. Damiani 1999 tetrapod AM F80190, posterior left mandible (holotype). AM F54961, right femur
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