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Deposits Containing Amphibian Fossils
Hawkesbury Sandstone, Middle Triassic, Brookvale near Sydney |
Drummond Basin - Early Carboniferous |
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Glenidal
Formation, Clematis Group, near Moolayember Dip, northeastern side of
Carnarvon Range, Lower Triassic |
Narrabeen Group, Railway ballast quarry, near Gosford, New
South Wales, Lower Triassic |
Narrabeen Group, Sydney area, New South Wales, Middle
Triassic |
Hawkesbury Sandstone, Brookvale, Sydney area, New South
Wales, Middle Triassic |
Winnamatta Group, Brick Pit,
St. Peters, Sydney, New South Wales, Middle Triassic |
Ashfield Shale, Winamatta Group, Hurstville Brick Company
quarry at Mortdale, Sydney area, New South Wales, Upper Triassic |
Somersby, Hawkesbury Sandstone, Middle Triassic |
Parkes, New South Wales |
Silverband Formation, Grampians Group - Early Devonian |
Cluan Formation, Poatina Road near Launceston,
Lower Triassic |
Knocklofty Formation, Old Beach Site on the Derwent River
about 3 km north of Hobart, Tasmania, Lower Triassic |
Knocklofty Formation, Midway Point & Cunningham localities
near Hobart, Lower Triassic |
Blina Shale in Erskine ranges about 90 km east of Derby
Western Australia, Lower Triassic |
Kockatea Shale at the Bore Hole near Geraldton, Western
Australia, Lower Triassic |
Leigh Creek, South Australia - Late Triassic |
Rewan Group, Queensland - Early Triassic |
Arcadia Sandstone, Rewan Group, near headwaters of Duckworth
Creek, southwest of
Bluff in
south-central Queensland, Lower
Triassic
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Kolane Station, Westgrove Ironstone Member of the Evergreen
formation, south central Queensland, Uppermost Early Jurassic |
Duckworth Creek, the Arcadia Formation, Rewan Group, NW of
Rolleston, south central Queensland, Lower Triassic |
The Crater, the Arcadia Formation, Rewan Group, 72 km SW of
Rolleston, south central Queensland, Lower Triassic |
- Evergreen Formation of Queensland - Late
Jurassic
- Strzelecki Formation of Victoria - Early
Cretaceous
- Wianamatta Group of NSW - Middle Triassic
- Knocklofty Formation
This formation is composed mainly of overbank-floodplain deposits cut by
higher energy channels containing coarse conglomerates. As well as the
labyrinthodonts from this site is the lungfish ceratodus,
ray-finned fish, and Tasmaniosaurus, a proterosuchian
reptile.
Blina Shale
These deposits are estuarine, deltaic or marine, containing
labyrinthodonts, lungfish and actinopterygians.
Kockatea Shale, WA
These are estuarine deposits, deltaic or marine, and contain
labyrinthodonts and fish and marine invertebrates.
Leigh Creek, Late Triassic of South
Australia
http://dml.cmnh.org/2000Mar/msg00580.html
This site has finally revealed a labyrinthodont. Fish were also present.
Some Interesting Fossil Finds From the Non-Marine Permian and Triassic
Sequences in Northern Tasmania, Australia
Sources & Further reading
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