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Griman Creek

103 occ. 30 taxa (2 genera) 1 countries
Description

The Griman Creek Formation is a geological formation in northern New South Wales and southern Queensland, Australia whose strata date back to the Albian-Cenomanian stages of the mid-Cretaceous. It is most notable being a major source of opal, found near the town of Lightning Ridge, New South Wales. Alongside the opal opalised fossils are also found, including those of dinosaurs and primitive monotremes.

Genera
2 genera
Fostoria
Fostoria
Dinosaurs
Valid 1 occ. · 101 Ma
Timimus
Timimus
Dinosaurs
Valid 1 occ. · 113 Ma
Griman Creek
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(A) Map of Queensland showing the extent of Cretaceous outcrop. (B) Map of the location of Dig Site Three (type locality of Haliskia), and numerous other sites in the area from which pterosaur fossils have been collected. © A. H. Pentland, S. F. Poropat, R. J. Duncan, A. W. A. Kellner, R. A. M. Bantim, J. J. Bevitt, A. M. Tait & K. Grice · CC BY 4.0 · Wikipedia
Griman Creek
Griman Creek
Griman Creek
Griman Creek
Griman Creek
Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
Geological group / Member
Rolling Downs / Wallangulla Sandstone 79
Rolling Downs 19
Wallangulla Sandstone 5
Top countries
🇦🇺 Australia 103
Depositional environments
Estuary / bay 48
Floodplain 29
Terrestrial indet. 16
Fluvial indet. 7
Marine indet. 3
Top collectors
E. Smith 48
E. Long 17
H. Godthelp 10
M. Miltenberg 8
Rob and Debbie Brogan 5
A. Ritchie 4
T. Wollaston 3
B. Kotru 2
Y. Kotru 2
T. Broughan 1
Collection activity by decade
1900s 3
1910s 4
1970s 6
1980s 6
1990s 6