Where: Tasmania, Australia (42.8° S, 147.3° E: paleocoordinates 75.9° S, 132.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Knocklofty Formation, Induan (252.2 - 251.2 Ma)
• Palynology and vertebrate biostratigraphy have been used to argue for an earliest Triassic age for the Knocklofty Formation (Cosgriff 1974; Camp & Banks 1978).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "channel"; pebbly, muddy conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by JW Cosgriff in the 1960s
• UTGD: Geology Department, University of Tasmania, Hobart.
Primary reference: J. W. Cosgriff. 1974. Lower Triassic Temnospondyli of Tasmania. The Geological Society of America, Special Paper 149:1-134 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 136589: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 30.11.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Saurichthys sp. Agassiz 1834 ray-finned fish | |
Amphibia | |
Derwentia warreni n. gen. n. sp.
Derwentia warreni n. gen. n. sp. Cosgriff 1974 tetrapod UTGD 87784, nearly complete skull (holotype). UTGD 88066
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"Blinasaurus townrowi n. sp." = Banksiops townrowi
"Blinasaurus townrowi n. sp." = Banksiops townrowi Cosgriff 1974 tetrapod UTGD 87885, nearly complete skull (holotype). UTGD 87516, 87515, 87513, 87514, 87523
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Watsonisuchus sp. Ochev 1966 tetrapod skull roof fragments UTGD 95750, 95388 and 95699; palatal fragment UTGD 95385; and lower jaw fragments UTGD 95384, 95395 and 95677.
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Osteichthyes | |
Ceratodus sp. Agassiz 1838 lungfish |