Walloon Coal Measures

The Walloon Coal Measures are a Late Jurassic geologic subgroup in Queensland, Australia. Deposited within the Surat Basin, it is considered Oxfordian to early Tithonian in age based on lead-uranium dating of tuffites within the unit.[1]

Walloon Coal Measures
Stratigraphic range: Oxfordian-early Tithonian
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TypeSubgroup
Unit ofInjune Creek Group
Sub-unitsJuandah Coal Measures, Maclean Sandstone Member, Tangalooma Sandstone, Taroom Coal Measures, Mutdapilly fossil locality
UnderliesSpringbok Sandstone
OverliesHutton Sandstone, Eurombah Formation
Thickness420–700 m (1,380–2,300 ft)
Lithology
PrimaryShale, sandstone, siltstone
OtherCoal, limestone
Location
Coordinates27.0°S 152.6°E / -27.0; 152.6
Approximate paleocoordinates67.2°S 93.3°E / -67.2; 93.3
Region Queensland
Country Australia
ExtentSurat & Clarence-Moreton Basins
Type section
Named forWalloon
Named byDudgeon
Year defined1982
Walloon Coal Measures is located in Australia
Walloon Coal Measures
Walloon Coal Measures (Australia)

Description

The 420 to 700 metres (1,380 to 2,300 ft) thick formation comprises thin-bedded, claystones, shales, siltstones, lithic and sublithic to feldspathic arenites, coal seams and partings and minor limestone. The formation is laterally equivalent to the Mulgildie Coal Measures and Birkhead Formation.[2]

Fossil content

The formation, in the Jurassic in the South Polar region, has provided fossil flora and trace fossils of theropods, ornithopods and Changpeipus bartholomaii and Garbina roeorum.[3][4] The dinosaur Rhoetosaurus is known from the unit.[1] 11 tracks are known from the formation, mostly those of large (prints 30-75 centimetres in length) theropods.[5]

References

  1. Todd, Christopher N.; Roberts, Eric M.; Knutsen, Espen M.; Rozefelds, Andrew C.; Huang, Hui-Qing; Spandler, Carl (December 2019). "Refined age and geological context of two of Australia's most important Jurassic vertebrate taxa (Rhoetosaurus brownei and Siderops kehli), Queensland". Gondwana Research. 76: 19–25. Bibcode:2019GondR..76...19T. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2019.05.008. S2CID 199105458.
  2. Walloon Coal Measures - Australian Stratigraphic Units Database
  3. Westvale No. 5 Colliery at Fossilworks.org
  4. Balgowan Colliery, Darling Downs at Fossilworks.org
  5. Romilio, Anthony; Salisbury, Steven W.; Jannel, Andréas (2020-06-12). "Footprints of large theropod dinosaurs in the Middle–UpperJurassic (lower Callovian–lower Tithonian) Walloon Coal Measures of southern Queensland, Australia". Historical Biology. 33 (10): 2135–2146. doi:10.1080/08912963.2020.1772252. ISSN 0891-2963. S2CID 225692077.

Further reading

  • L. C. Ball. 1933. Fossil footprints. Queensland Government Mining Journal 34(403):384
  • A. Bartholomai. 1966. Fossil footprints in Queensland. Australian Natural History 15:147-150
  • J. B. Cameron. 1970. The Rosewood-Walloon coalfield. Geological Survey of Queensland Publication 344:1-42
  • Dudgeon, M.J., 1982, Stratigraphy and palaeobotany of east and west Haldon, Main Range, southeast Queensland., University of Queensland Department of Geology. Papers, 10(2), p83-110
  • Green, P.M., Carmichael, D.C., Brain, T.J., Murray, C.G., McKellar, J.L., Beeston, J.W., Gray, A.R.G., 1997, Lithostratigraphic units in the Bowen and Surat Basins, Queensland IN: Green, P.M. (ed.) "The Surat and Bowen Basins, south-east Queensland", Queensland Minerals and Energy Review Series, Queensland Geological Survey, 1v, p41-108
  • T. H. Rich and P. Vickers-Rich. 2003. A Century of Australian Dinosaurs. Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery and Monash Science Centre, Monash University 1-124
  • J. F. Rigby. 1978. Jurassic plant fossils from the Walloon Coal Measures at Rosewood Consolidated Colliery. Queensland Government Mining Journal 526-529
  • Wells, A.T., O'Brien, P.E., 1994, Lithostratigraphic framework of the Clarence-Moreton Basin IN Wells, A.T. and O'Brien, P.E. (eds.) "Geology and Petroleum Potential of the Clarence-Moreton Basin, New South Wales and Queensland", Australian Geological Survey Organisation. Bulletin, 241, p4-47
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