The Triassic of Timor: Lithostratigraphy, chronostratigraphy and palaeogeography

Early Triassic (early Olenekian) life in the interior of East Gondwana: mixed marine–terrestrial biota from the Kockatea Shale, Western Australia

“…Ammonoids of similar ages have been recognized in the Locker Shale of the Northern Carnarvon Basin (McTavish, 1973), the Blina Shale of the Canning Basin (Gorter, 1978a), and both the Niof Formation (Bird and Cook, 1991;unpublished observations of E. McCartain and D.W. Haig) and Lilu Beds (Haniel, 1915;Welter, 1922;Nakazawa and Bando, 1968;Berry et al, 1984;Charlton et al, 2009) in Timor-Leste.…”

“…Although many groups have been identified in previous studies, relatively few have been thoroughly described. Noted fossils include stromatolites and other microbialites (McLoughlin and McNamara, 2001;Lipps and Culver, 2002;Thomas et al, 2004;Mory et al, 2005;Metcalfe et al, 2008;Chen et al, 2012Chen et al, , 2014Luo and Chen, 2014), marine phytoplankton (Balme, 1963(Balme, , 1967Medd, 1966;Dolby and Balme, 1976;Sappal, 1978;Thomas et al, 2004), organic-cemented agglutinated foraminifera (Jones, 1970;Metcalfe et al, 2008), inarticulate brachiopods (Dickins and McTavish, 1963), bivalves (Dickins and McTavish, 1963;Skwarko and Kummel, 1972;McTavish and Dickins, 1974;Thomas et al, 2004;Metcalfe et al, 2008), gastropods (Metcalfe et al, 2008), nautiloids (Skwarko and Kummel, 1972), ammonoids (Edgell, 1964;Skwarko and Kummel, 1972;McTavish and Dickins, 1974;Bolton et al, 2010;Chen et al, 2012), echinoid spines (tentatively identified; Metcalfe et al, 2008), spinicaudatans (previously referred to as 'conchostracans'; (Gorter, 1994), C = Canning Basin (Mory, 2010); D = Bonaparte Basin (Mory, 1988;Nicoll and Foster, 1998;Gorter et al, 2010); E = Timor-Leste (Charlton et al, 2009). …”

Revision of the genus Anasibirites Mojsisovics (Ammonoidea): an iconic and cosmopolitan taxon of the late Smithian (Early Triassic) extinction

“…This facies occurs as exotic blocks, up to a few metres thick, embedded in the Cenozoic Bobonaro Formation (Charlton et al . ). These blocks consist of condensed sequences of pelagic limestone deposited on sea‐mounts (Martini et al .…”

“…), but the range of ages represented by ammonoids indicates that most, if not all, stages of the Triassic are probably present (Charlton et al . ). Although embedded in a formation of Jurassic age, similar occurrences of exotic blocks of Early Triassic pelagic limestone are known from Oman (Tozer and Calon , Brühwiler et al .…”

Provenance of Permian–Triassic Gondwana Sequence units accreted to the Banda Arc in the Timor region: Constraints from zircon U–Pb and Hf isotopes

“…Other studies of these rocks include: Simons (1939), Gageonnet and Lemoine (1958), Audley-Charles (1968), Gianni (1971), Grady and Berry (1977), Charlton (1989), Bird and Cook (1991), Hunter (1993), Barkham (1993), Sawyer et al (1993), Prasetyadi and Harris (1996), Harris et al (1998Harris et al ( , 2000Harris et al ( , 2009, Charlton (2002), Charlton et al (2009), Vorkink (2004, McCartain and Backhouse (2006), Kaneko et al (2007), Zobell (2007), Haig et al (2008), and Major (2011). From these studies it is evident that Gondwana Mega-sequence units exposed in the Banda Collision and drilled offshore on the Australian margin are best divided into two series, the Permian-Triassic Aileu-Maubisse Series, and the Permian-Jurassic Kekneno Series (Lemoine, 1959;Audley-Charles, 1968;Rosidi et al, 1981;Sawyer et al, 1993).…”