Summary
Koolasuchus cleelandi is the Victorian state fossil emblem. It was one of eight fossils nominated to become state fossil emblem in 2021. It is a giant temnospondyl amphibian from Early Cretaceous rocks near San Remo, Victoria, which showed temnospondyls had survived at least 50 million years longer in Australia than anywhere else in the world.
Specimen Details
-
Taxon Name
-
Author and date of publication
Warren et al., 1997
-
Type Status
Holotype
-
Number Of Specimens
1
-
Sex
Unknown
-
Category
-
Scientific Group
-
Discipline
-
Collecting Areas
-
Type of Item
Taxonomy
-
Kingdom
-
Phylum
-
Subphylum
-
Superclass
-
Order
-
Suborder
-
Superfamily
-
Family
-
Genus
-
Species Name
cleelandi
Geospatial Information
-
Continent
-
Country
-
State
-
District
-
Town
-
Era
Mesozoic
-
Period
Cretaceous
-
Epoch
Early
-
Geological group
Strzelecki Group
