ammonites
Gantheaume Point tracksite (2) (Cretaceous of Australia)

Also known as Broome

Where: Western Australia, Australia (18.0° S, 122.2° E: paleocoordinates 51.0° S, 83.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Broome Sandstone Formation, Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; micaceous sandstone and siltstone

• "variegated micaceous sandstones, often strongly crossbedded, with subordinate siltstone...We found ripple marking, with wave lengths varying from two or three to ten or twelve centimeters, to be characteristic..."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected in 1987

Collection methods: surface (in situ), peel or thin section,

• collected only casts of footprints

Primary reference: T. Thulborn, T. Hamley, and P. Foulkes. 1995. Preliminary report on sauropod dinosaur tracks in the Broome Sandstone (Lower Cretaceous) of Western Australia. In M. G. Lockley, V. F. dos Santos, C. A. Meyer, & A. P. Hunt (eds.), Aspects of Sauropod Paleobiology. GAIA 10:85-94 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61671: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 22.06.2006

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