The Redbank Plains Formation, between Brisbane and Ipswich in South East Queensland, provides fossil evidence of the fauna and flora of the earliest part of the Cenozoic era, and is dated from the Paleogene Period, specifically the late Paleocene–early Eocene (66–55 Ma). These fossils have been collected and studied for over 120 years, but the conjunction of agriculture in the then-rural Redbank Plains district, and the mapping of the valuable Ipswich coalfields, led to their palaeontological significance being recognised and documented. Scientific study began in 1916 and has continued since, revealing some of the earliest evidence of modern Australian fauna and flora. However, the area’s rich underground coal resources and a hunger for residential land in a rapidly developing urban corridor, has resulted in the loss of or threats to the fossil sites. One deposit has been given local government status as a Conservation Park and remains accessible for scientific study, but the lack of either national or state protection for such significant sites in Queensland and Australia imperils our national geological heritage and its scientific contribution.
{"title":"Coal, Bees and Fossils: The History and Significance of the Redbank Plains Formation Fossil Sites, South East Queensland","authors":"A. Rix","doi":"10.53060/prsq.2022-11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53060/prsq.2022-11","url":null,"abstract":"The Redbank Plains Formation, between Brisbane and Ipswich in South East Queensland, provides fossil evidence of the fauna and flora of the earliest part of the Cenozoic era, and is dated from the Paleogene Period, specifically the late Paleocene–early Eocene (66–55 Ma). These fossils have been collected and studied for over 120 years, but the conjunction of agriculture in the then-rural Redbank Plains district, and the mapping of the valuable Ipswich coalfields, led to their palaeontological significance being recognised and documented. Scientific study began in 1916 and has continued since, revealing some of the earliest evidence of modern Australian fauna and flora. However, the area’s rich underground coal resources and a hunger for residential land in a rapidly developing urban corridor, has resulted in the loss of or threats to the fossil sites. One deposit has been given local government status as a Conservation Park and remains accessible for scientific study, but the lack of either national or state protection for such significant sites in Queensland and Australia imperils our national geological heritage and its scientific contribution.","PeriodicalId":40055,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70765666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Without a doubt, boomerangs are one of the Sunshine State’s symbols. But forget everything you know about their ‘returning effect’. Whereas returning boomerangs were only used for games and learning purposes, non-returning boomerangs were complex, multifunctional tools. They played a crucial role in Aboriginal communities’ daily lives in Queensland and other parts of Australia. In our work, we put together Traditional knowledge and experimental archaeology to investigate a forgotten use of boomerangs: modifying the edges of stone tools. This activity is fundamental to producing a variety of stone implements, each of them with a specific fu nction. In our study, experimental replicas of boomerangs proved very functional to shape stone tools. Our results are the first scientific proof of the multipurpose nature of these iconic objects. stone tools in ancient Queensland: Experimental and reveal a new function
{"title":"Boomerangs Shape Stone Tools in Ancient Queensland: Experimental Archaeology and Traditional Knowledge Reveal a New Function of the Most Iconic Indigenous Tool","authors":"E. Martellotta, P. Craft","doi":"10.53060/prsq.2022-12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53060/prsq.2022-12","url":null,"abstract":"Without a doubt, boomerangs are one of the Sunshine State’s symbols. But forget everything you know about their ‘returning effect’. Whereas returning boomerangs were only used for games and learning purposes, non-returning boomerangs were complex, multifunctional tools. They played a crucial role in Aboriginal communities’ daily lives in Queensland and other parts of Australia. In our work, we put together Traditional knowledge and experimental archaeology to investigate a forgotten use of boomerangs: modifying the edges of stone tools. This activity is fundamental to producing a variety of stone implements, each of them with a specific fu nction. In our study, experimental replicas of boomerangs proved very functional to shape stone tools. Our results are the first scientific proof of the multipurpose nature of these iconic objects. stone tools in ancient Queensland: Experimental and reveal a new function","PeriodicalId":40055,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70765716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Royal Society of Queensland Annual Report 2021–2022","authors":"Ross A. Hynes","doi":"10.53060/prsq.2022-23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53060/prsq.2022-23","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40055,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70765938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recent Initiatives for Biodiversity Conservation on Privately Tenured Rural Land: An Introductory Survey and Discussion","authors":"P. Dart, P. England, N. Quinn","doi":"10.53060/prsq.2022-20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53060/prsq.2022-20","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40055,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70766270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Career Retrospective","authors":"A. Arthington","doi":"10.53060/prsq.2022-22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53060/prsq.2022-22","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40055,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70766333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Williams, Eleanor M. Collins, Michelle Nash, Chandra Wood, Mel Cooper, Craig Hardie, Kelli Messer
{"title":"Population Dynamics and Fire Response of Two Rare Shrubs in Brisbane Eucalypt Forests","authors":"P. Williams, Eleanor M. Collins, Michelle Nash, Chandra Wood, Mel Cooper, Craig Hardie, Kelli Messer","doi":"10.53060/prsq.2022-18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53060/prsq.2022-18","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40055,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70765692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
One of the central tenets of interpretation of the Mount Isa Inlier, North West Queensland, is that there is a median underlying belt of Paleoproterozoic acid volcanics (Leichhardt Volcanics) and granites (Kalkadoon Supersuite), 1850–1860 Ma, commonly referred to as the ‘Kalkadoon-Leichhardt Basement’. A primary requirement of this interpretation is that one of the main boundaries, that between the felsic Leichhardt complex and the Magna Lynn Metabasalt, is an unconformity. This boundary is everywhere serrated and complex, and the unconformity interpretation would require it to have been deformed by a system of variably plunging, refolded folds. Mapping of this boundary in the field, and using previous mapping and remotely sensed images, shows it to be better interpreted as intrusive, with isolated bodies of Magna Lynn Metabasalt within the Leichhardt complex interpreted as relict mega xenoliths, rather than fault blocks or refolded synforms. An intrusive relationship of the Kalkadoon/Leichhardt complex calls into question the relationships of the other mafic volcanic sequences across the Inlier.
{"title":"Reversal of Ages of the Kalkadoon/Leichhardt Complex and the Magna Lynn Metabasalt, NW Queensland","authors":"W. Perkins","doi":"10.53060/prsq.2022-03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53060/prsq.2022-03","url":null,"abstract":"One of the central tenets of interpretation of the Mount Isa Inlier, North West Queensland, is that there is a median underlying belt of Paleoproterozoic acid volcanics (Leichhardt Volcanics) and granites (Kalkadoon Supersuite), 1850–1860 Ma, commonly referred to as the ‘Kalkadoon-Leichhardt Basement’. A primary requirement of this interpretation is that one of the main boundaries, that between the felsic Leichhardt complex and the Magna Lynn Metabasalt, is an unconformity. This boundary is everywhere serrated and complex, and the unconformity interpretation would require it to have been deformed by a system of variably plunging, refolded folds. Mapping of this boundary in the field, and using previous mapping and remotely sensed images, shows it to be better interpreted as intrusive, with isolated bodies of Magna Lynn Metabasalt within the Leichhardt complex interpreted as relict mega xenoliths, rather than fault blocks or refolded synforms. An intrusive relationship of the Kalkadoon/Leichhardt complex calls into question the relationships of the other mafic volcanic sequences across the Inlier.","PeriodicalId":40055,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70765823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Royal Society of Queensland, Award of Life Membership to Angela H. Arthington, 18 June 2022","authors":"","doi":"10.53060/prsq.2022-21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53060/prsq.2022-21","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40055,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70766283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Cooper Creek catfish ( Neosiluroides cooperensis ) is an endangered species, endemic to the Cooper Creek catchment of the Lake Eyre Basin in Central Australia. The species is considered at risk from a range of significant biological and anthropogenic stressors, including the recent, rapid spread of translocated sleepy cod ( Oxyeleotris lineolata ) throughout its range. Little is known of N. cooperensis biology and ecology due to its cryptic nature and restricted distribution within a remote geographical landscape. This study undertook targeted sampling to collect critical biological information, to better evaluate the species’ response to current and future threats. Despite a low catch rate, some important biological observations were made. Notably, a ripe female was collected (TL: 409 mm, W: 575.5 g) with eggs ranging in size from 2.48 mm to 3.30 mm, and an estimated fecundity of 4370 eggs. Patterns in reproductive biology indicate the species is likely to be an annual batch spawner, possibly cued by early summer storms. Dietary analysis showed a narrow diet [Levins’ standardised niche breadth: 0.33 (B A )] dominated by gastropods and bivalves. Findings from this study provide significant new information regarding the species’ reproductive biology and ecology, in particular life-history similarities and dietary overlap with invasive O. lineolata . Our findings validate some of the perceived threats to N. cooperensis and will enable future work to accurately assess risks to population viability. findings will be integral to the development of a conservation plan for Cooper Creek catfish . Biology and Reproductive Ecology of the Endangered Cooper Creek Catfish ( Neosiluroides cooperensis ) and Implications for Its Conservation. freshwater fishes in arid and semi-arid regions, fish life-history diversity and its functional relationship with gradients of variation.
{"title":"Biology and Reproductive Ecology of the Endangered Cooper Creek Catfish (Neosiluroides cooperensis) and Implications for Its Conservation","authors":"K. Burndred, David C. Sternberg","doi":"10.53060/prsq.2022-02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53060/prsq.2022-02","url":null,"abstract":"The Cooper Creek catfish ( Neosiluroides cooperensis ) is an endangered species, endemic to the Cooper Creek catchment of the Lake Eyre Basin in Central Australia. The species is considered at risk from a range of significant biological and anthropogenic stressors, including the recent, rapid spread of translocated sleepy cod ( Oxyeleotris lineolata ) throughout its range. Little is known of N. cooperensis biology and ecology due to its cryptic nature and restricted distribution within a remote geographical landscape. This study undertook targeted sampling to collect critical biological information, to better evaluate the species’ response to current and future threats. Despite a low catch rate, some important biological observations were made. Notably, a ripe female was collected (TL: 409 mm, W: 575.5 g) with eggs ranging in size from 2.48 mm to 3.30 mm, and an estimated fecundity of 4370 eggs. Patterns in reproductive biology indicate the species is likely to be an annual batch spawner, possibly cued by early summer storms. Dietary analysis showed a narrow diet [Levins’ standardised niche breadth: 0.33 (B A )] dominated by gastropods and bivalves. Findings from this study provide significant new information regarding the species’ reproductive biology and ecology, in particular life-history similarities and dietary overlap with invasive O. lineolata . Our findings validate some of the perceived threats to N. cooperensis and will enable future work to accurately assess risks to population viability. findings will be integral to the development of a conservation plan for Cooper Creek catfish . Biology and Reproductive Ecology of the Endangered Cooper Creek Catfish ( Neosiluroides cooperensis ) and Implications for Its Conservation. freshwater fishes in arid and semi-arid regions, fish life-history diversity and its functional relationship with gradients of variation.","PeriodicalId":40055,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70765764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Proceedings of The royal socieTy of Queensland Vol. 131 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence. Individual articles may be copied or downloaded for private, scholarly and not-for-profit use. Quotations may be extracted provided that the author and The Royal Society of Queensland are acknowledged. Queries regarding republication of papers, or parts of papers such as figures and photographs, should be addressed to the Secretary of The Royal Society of Queensland (rsocqld@gmail.com). PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS 2022
{"title":"The Imbalance of Power between Urban and Rural Populations When Addressing Sustainability While Burdened by Indifferent Politics","authors":"Ross A. Hynes","doi":"10.53060/prsq.2022-15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53060/prsq.2022-15","url":null,"abstract":"Proceedings of The royal socieTy of Queensland Vol. 131 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence. Individual articles may be copied or downloaded for private, scholarly and not-for-profit use. Quotations may be extracted provided that the author and The Royal Society of Queensland are acknowledged. Queries regarding republication of papers, or parts of papers such as figures and photographs, should be addressed to the Secretary of The Royal Society of Queensland (rsocqld@gmail.com). PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS 2022","PeriodicalId":40055,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland","volume":"17 6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70765526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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