Where: Tasmania, Australia (42.8° S, 147.5° E: paleocoordinates 75.9° S, 132.8° 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 136592: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 30.11.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
Chomatobatrachus halei Cosgriff 1974 tetrapod Skull fragment, UTGD 58995; lower jaw fragment, UTGD 58986.
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