Rhondda Colliery tracksite, Ipswich (Triassic of Australia)

Also known as Dinmore, Rhonda Colliery

Where: Queensland, Australia (27.6° S, 152.9° E: paleocoordinates 58.7° S, 101.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Striped Bacon Seam Member (Blackstone Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• ca. 20 m above base of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; coal and siltstone

• tracks preserved as casts in siltstone overlying the Striped Bacon coal seam

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, trace

Collected in 1964

Primary reference: H. R. E. Staines and J. T. Woods. 1964. Recent discovery of Triassic dinosaur footprints in Queensland. The Australian Jounal of Science 27(2):55 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 142852: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.04.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Otozoidae
Evazoum sp. Nicosia and Loi 2003 prosauropod
QM F5474