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The Knocklofty Formation is an Early Triassic geologic formation from southern Tasmania, Australia, belonging to the Induan stage. It is made of Sandstone.

List of known fossil taxa

Tetrapods

• Banksiops townrowi
• Chomatobatrachus halei
• Deltasaurus kimberleyensis
• Derwentia warreni
• Rotaurisaurus contundo
• Tasmaniosaurus triassicus
• Watsonisuchus sp.

Fish

• Ceratodus sp.
• Saurichthys sp.
• Cleithrolepis sp.

References

1. "Australian Stratigraphic Units Database, Geoscience Australia". asud.ga.gov.au. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
2. ^ Cosgriff, J. (1 January 1974). Lower Triassic Temnospondyli of Tasmania. Geological Society of America Special Papers. Vol. 149. pp. 1–134. doi:10.1130/SPE149-p1. ISBN 0-8137-2149-0.
3. ^ Dziewa, Thamas. J. (1980). "Early Triassic Osteichythyans from the Knocklofty Formation of Tasmania" (PDF). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania. 114: 145–160. doi:10.26749/rstpp.114.145.

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