Where: New South Wales, Australia (34.4° S, 150.9° E: paleocoordinates 67.5° S, 141.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Coal Cliff Sandstone Formation (Narrabeen Group), Induan (252.2 - 251.2 Ma)
• "Tracks occur 25-50 cm above the top of the uppermost coal, the Bulli Coal, of the Illawarra Coal Measures, and hence from the lower Coal Cliff Sandstone of the Narrabeen Group." An earliest Triassic (Induan) is supported based on isotopic and radiometric data.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; shale and siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: trace
Collected by WS Dun, WC Downe in 1913
Collection methods: salvage,
• MMF: Mining Museum of the Geological Survey of New South Wales
Primary reference: G. J. Retallack. 1996. Early Triassic therapsid footprints from the Sydney Basin, Australia. Alcheringa 20:301-314 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 136497: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 29.11.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Dicynodontipus bellambiensis n. sp.
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