Australia's fossil heritage : a catalogue of important Australian fossil sites / The Australian Heritage Council.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Australian Heritage Council.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paleontology--Australia.

Paleontology.

Fossils--Australia.

Fossils.

Natural history--Australia.

Natural history.

Cultural property--Protection--Australia.

Cultural property.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Place of Publication:

Collingwood, Vic., Australia : CSIRO Pub., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A detailed examination of Australia's fossil heritage revealing the richness and diversity of Australia's prehistory.

Contents:

Cover; Foreword; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. New South Wales; Fennell Bay (Kurrur-Kurran) fossil forest; Lake George; Lightning Ridge; Belmont insect beds; Canowindra fossil fish site; Cuddie Springs; Taemas-Cavan-Wee Jasper; Cliefden Caves - Belubula River Valley; Talbragar fossil beds; Wellington Caves; 2. Northern Territory; Alcoota vertebrate fossil beds; Bauhinia Downs flora, Balbarini; Bitter Springs Formation, Ross River Homestead; Bullock Creek vertebrate fossil site; Ellery Creek Cambrian-Ordovician trace fossil locality; Cape Van Diemen flora; Ellery Creek Section

Mt Skinner faunaMt Watt and Mt Charlotte; 3. Queensland; Walsh River and Elizabeth Creek; Fletcherview - Big Bend 'Leichhardt Cliffs' Devonian reef complex; Mount Morgan Jurassic dinosaur footprint site; Rewan, The Crater; Black Mountain Cambrian-Ordovician Boundary Section; Chinchilla Rifle Range; Chatsworth Limestone echinoderm and trilobite localities; Redbank Plains Formation; Mount Crosby Triassic insect locality; Jack Hills Gorge and Fish Hill, Broken River Province; Riversleigh; Homevale Station; Dinmore Quarry; Lark Quarry Dinosaur Stampede National Monument (Winton Formation)

Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Winton Formation4. South Australia; Ediacara sites, Nilpena, Flinders Ranges; Emu Bay (Cape d'Estaing to Big Gully), Kangaroo Island; Myponga Beach, Fleurieu Peninsula; Ajax Mine archaeocyathid locality; Stuart, Poole and Nelly Creek fossil plant sites; Moon Plain Cretaceous fossil site, Coober Pedy; Lake Palankarinna, Lake Eyre and Tirari Desert; Green Waterhole Cave; Lake Frome Basin, Namba Formation; Lake Ngapakaldi Leaf Locality; Lake Callabonna; Naracoorte Caves; 5. Tasmania; Christmas Hills; Darwin Meteorite Crater

Ordovician faunal succession of the Florentine ValleyFossil Cliffs, Maria Island; Early Oligocene macroflora sites of north-western Tasmania; Lune River Jurassic plant site; Eastern shore of MacquarieHarbour; The Shoreline near Point Hibbs, Western Tasmania; Table Cape - Fossil Bluff, Wynyard; Triassic vertebrate faunas, Knocklofty Formation; 6. Victoria; Mt Howitt fish fossil site; Genoa River Devonian tetrapod site; Otway and Strzelecki Ranges; Hines Quarry Diprotodon site, Bacchus Marsh; Grange Burn Pliocene mammal site, Hamilton; Victorian Ordovician graptolite province

Silurian Baragwanathia site, YeaTorquay Oligocene whale and invertebrate site; Hamilton Miocene-Pliocene invertebrate sites; Early Cretaceous (Aptian) Koonwarra site; Middle Eocene Anglesea site, Eastern View Formation; Latrobe Valley coal measures; 7. Western Australia; Devonian 'Great Barrier Reef' and Gogo fish fossil site, Fitzroy Crossing; Devil's Lair, Cape Leeuwin-Cape Naturaliste region; Tumblagooda Sandstone, Kalbarri and Murchison River Gorge trace fossils; West Dale, Darling Plateau; Roe Calcarenite invertebrate fauna, Roe Plains

Callytharra Formation, Callytharra Springs (Permian invertebrates and foraminifera)

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613807960

9780643102309

0643102302

9781282138582

1282138588

9780643101784

0643101780

OCLC:

768383037