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1 online resource |
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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 |
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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) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
A detailed examination of Australia's fossil heritage revealing the richness and diversity of Australia's prehistory |
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Australian |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Paleontology -- Australia
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Fossils -- Australia
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Natural history -- Australia
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Cultural property -- Protection -- Australia
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NATURE -- Animals -- Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures.
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NATURE -- Fossils.
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SCIENCE -- Paleontology.
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Cultural property -- Protection
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Fossils
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Natural history
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Paleontology
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Fossile Tiere
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Fossile Pflanzen
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Fundstätte
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Australia
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Australien
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012451785 |
| ISBN |
9780643101784 |
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0643101780 |
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9780643102309 |
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0643102302 |
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