Miria Formation (original) (raw)

The Miria Formation is a Late Cretaceous geologic formation, in Western Australia. Possible indeterminate theropod remains have been recovered from it, as well as those of sea turtles, and possible azhdarchid pterosaurs. The lithology of the unit consists of calcarenite with abundant phosphatic nodules.The formation is a layer between 0.6 and 2.1 metres in thickness, a surface deposited during the end of the Cretaceous in the late Maastrichtian period around sixty five million years ago. The composition is foraminiferal calcisiltite and calcarenite and is rich in macrofossils of a diverse range of species. The specimens of ammonites date the Miria Marl of the Giralia Anticline layer to a period of formation at a major extinction event in the Cretaceous.The formation shows the K/T boundary