Fossil scales of thelodonts, an extinct group of jawless fish, recovered from multiple Australian geological basins. The data, hosted by the Australian Ocean Data Network, includes specimens from the Cravens Peak Beds, Mulga Downs Group, and Gneudna Formation. These fossils are used to correlate the ages of sedimentary rock units across the continent.
Use Cases
- Correlating the age of sedimentary rock units based on the presence of specific thelodont species mentioned in the description
- Studying the adaptive radiation of the Turinia fauna in the Australian region during the Devonian period
- Reconstructing marginal marine paleoenvironments based on associated ostracod and eridostracan fossils
Strengths
- Data is linked to specific, named geological formations and basins (e.g., Cravens Peak Beds, Georgina Basin)
- Description provides detailed taxonomic references and stratigraphic correlations for the fossil specimens
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Time Range
- Early Devonian to latest Givetian-earliest Frasnian
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-16 20:04:05.809728; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- Western Queensland, New South Wales, Western Australia (Georgina Basin, Cobar/Wilcannia area, Canning Basin, Carnarvon Basin)