Bowen Basin L5533: Capitanian, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Spermatophyta indet. seed/fruit
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| silicified seeds | ||||||||||
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Equisetopsida
- Araucariaceae
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Dadoxylon nicoli axis
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| Seward | ||||||||||
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Araucarioxylon sp. axis
Kraus 1870
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Arberiopsida
- Arberiales
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Vertebraria indica axis
Royle 1839
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| Royle | ||||||||||
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Polypodiopsida
- Osmundaceae
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Palaeosmunda playfordii axis
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| Gould | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Queensland |
| Coordinates: | 23.0° South, 148.0° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 67.0° South, 144.8° East (Wright 2013) | ||
| 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
| Primary lithology: | cherty/siliceous peat | ||
| Lithology description: silicified peat | |||
| Environment: | mire/swamp | 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: | 21078 | ||
| Authorizer: | H. Sims | Enterer: | H. Lindon |
| Modifier: | A. McGowan | Research group: | paleobotany |
| Created: | 2002-06-17 05:24:32 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-06-17 05:24:32 |
| 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] |