Duaringa core (Eocene of Australia)

Also known as Parish of Wallbury

Where: Queensland, Australia (23.7° S, 149.7° E: paleocoordinates 42.4° S, 145.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Duaringa Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified shale

• Cores from the bore consisted almost entirely of bluish and buff-coloured clays and shales, with occasional bands of lignite

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by T. Coventry in 1900

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: R. J. Tillyard and B. Dunstan. 1916. Mesozoic and Tertiary Insects of Queensland and New South Wales. Descriptions of the fossil Insects and stratigraphical features. Queensland Geological Survey (253)1-63 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/R. Day]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 111853: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 29.06.2011, edited by Grace Varnham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Magnoliales - Magnoliaceae
? Magnolia sp. Linnaeus 1753 magnolia
 Rosids - Moraceae
Ficus sp. Linnaeus 1753 fig
Polypodiopsida
  - Marsileaceae
Marsilea sp. Linnaeus 1753 water clover
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Parastacidae
Austrolestidion duaringae n. gen. n. sp.2
Austrolestidion duaringae n. gen. n. sp.2 Tillyard 1916 decapod
Actinopteri
 Teleostei -
Perciformes indet.1 Bleeker 1859 perch-like fish
1st and 2nd anal spines, ceratohyal palatine teeth, vertebrae, scales and other fragmentary bones, F1974