Australia's Fossil Heritage: A Catalogue of Important Australian Fossil SitesThe National Heritage List was created in January 2004 to recognise, celebrate and protect places of outstanding heritage value to the nation. National heritage encompasses those places that reveal the richness of Australia's extraordinarily diverse natural, historic and Indigenous heritage. One aspect of natural heritage that has been little explored is Australia’s wealth of exceptional fossil sites. While a small number of fossil sites have risen to public prominence, there are many lesser-known sites that have important heritage values. The Australian Heritage Council engaged palaeontologists from state museums and the Northern Territory Museum and Art Gallery to compile lists of outstanding fossil sites and to document their characteristics and relative importance against a range of categories, with a view to further our understanding about Australia’s important fossil heritage. Sites that were listed for National or World Heritage values were not included in the places for consideration, with the focus being on lesser-known but still important sites. This book is an account of the palaeontologists’ findings. Some of the sites that were included in the initial lists have since been recognised through listing on the National Heritage List or the World Heritage List. Australia's Fossil Heritage provides a useful reference to the outstanding fossil sites it catalogues, and gives a clearer understanding of the heritage values of such sites. More generally, it contributes to a greater appreciation of Australia’s geological and fossil diversity and enables readers to learn more about Australia's prehistory. |
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Contents
| 1 | |
2 Northern Territory | 19 |
3 Queensland | 31 |
4 South Australia | 51 |
5 Tasmania | 71 |
6 Victoria | 89 |
7 Western Australia | 111 |
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abundant Alcheringa animals assemblage Australian Museum Basin beds biostratigraphic brachiopods Cambrian Canowindra Cenozoic Comparison with similar contains corals Creek Cretaceous deposits Devonian dinosaur Dinosaur Cove dioramic potential Diprotodon diverse early Cambrian echinoderms ediacara environment eocene evolution extinct fauna fish fossil flora Formation fossil record extends Fossil significance fossil sites fossiliferous geological gogo gondwana graptolites Heritage Hill importance and research insect invertebrate Journal Jurassic kilometres known Lark Quarry Late Limestone macrofossils mammal marine marsupial metres Miocene molluscs Mt Howitt Naracoorte Northern Territory oligocene ordovician organisms outcrop overview palaeoenvironmental reconstruction palaeontology Permian placoderm plants Pleistocene Pliocene preserved Queensland reef research potential River Riversleigh rock Sandstone Scientific importance sedimentary sediments sequence Shale Silurian similar sites site/fossils sites in Australia South Australia South Wales species specimens Stories stratigraphic Taphonomy Taphonomy and condition Tasmania taxa taxonomic Torquay trace fossils trackways Triassic trilobites vertebrate fossil Victoria Wellington Caves Western Australia
Bibliographic information
| Title | Australia's Fossil Heritage: A Catalogue of Important Australian Fossil Sites |
| Author | , The Australian Heritage Council |
| Publisher | Csiro Publishing, 2012 |
| ISBN | 0643102302, 9780643102309 |
| Length | 200 pages |
| Subjects | › › › Science / History Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / General Social Science / Archaeology Technology & Engineering / Mining |
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