Bowen Basin L5247: Capitanian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Pteridopsida - Filicales
Dichotomopteris lindleyi leaf (Royle 1839)
(Royle) Maithy
Neomariopteris lobifolia sterile axis, leaf (Morris 1845)
(Morris) Maithy
Polypodiopsida - Equisetales - Phyllothecaceae
Phyllotheca australis leaf Brongniart 1828
Brongniart
Arberiopsida - Arberiales
Vertebraria indica axis Royle 1839
Royle
Sphenopsida
Paracalamites australis sterile axis
Rigby
Coniferales
Samaropsis cometensis n. sp. seed/fruit
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Queensland
Coordinates: 23.0° South, 148.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:67.0° South, 144.8° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Permian Epoch: Guadalupian
Stage: Capitanian 10 m.y. bin: Permian 4
*Period:Late/Upper Permian
Key time interval: Capitanian
Age range of interval: 264.28 - 259.51 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Back Creek Formation:MacMillan
Regional section:Bowen Basin (Comet Platform)
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,original carbon
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:21023
Authorizer:H. Sims Enterer:H. Lindon
Modifier:A. McGowan Research group:paleobotany
Created:2002-06-14 10:53:27 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2002-06-14 10:53:27
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

6458. S. McLoughlin. 1992. Late Permian Plant Megafossils from the Bowen Basin, Queensland, Australia: Part 1. Palaeontographica Abteilung B 228:105-149 [H. Sims/H. Lindon/J. Alroy]