ammonites
"Vertical Bill's" claim, Lightning Ridge (Cretaceous of Australia)

Also known as Three-Mile Field

Where: New South Wales, Australia (29.4° S, 148.0° E: paleocoordinates 63.0° S, 136.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Coptospora paradoxa pollen zone, Wallangulla Sandstone Member (Griman Creek Formation), Albian (112.0 - 99.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone

• opal-bearing claystone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: cast

Collected by E. Long in 1991

Collection methods: bulk, salvage,

• collected by Edward Long in 1991

Primary reference: W. A. Clemens, G. P. Wilson, and R. E. Molnar. 2003. An enigmatic (synapsid?) tooth from the Early Cretaceous of New South Wales, Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(1):232-237 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 68558: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 26.01.2007