Walloon Coal Measures

The Walloon Coal Measures are a Late Jurassic geologic subgroup in Queensland, Australia.

Deposited within the Surat Basin, it is considered Oxfordian to early Tithonian in age based on lead-uranium dating of tuffites within the unit.

[1] The 420 to 700 metres (1,380 to 2,300 ft) thick formation comprises thin-bedded, claystones, shales, siltstones, lithic and sublithic to feldspathic arenites, coal seams and partings and minor limestone.

[2] The formation, in the Jurassic in the South Polar region, has provided fossil flora and trace fossils of theropods, ornithopods and Changpeipus bartholomaii and Garbina roeorum.

[1] 11 tracks are known from the formation, mostly those of large (prints 30-75 centimetres in length) theropods.