Isisford (Cretaceous of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (24.3° S, 144.4° E: paleocoordinates 55.6° S, 132.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Winton Formation (Rolling Downs Group), Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• "latest Albian-earliest Cenomanian"

•Tucker et al. 2013: average age for Isisford site based on detrital zircon analysis was ~101.3Ma

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithified, nodular, volcaniclastic sandstone

• type specimen is from "a large nodule of fluvial, volcanoclastic sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in mid-1990s, 2001, 2003

• Queensland Museum collection

Primary reference: S. W. Salisbury, R. E. Molnar, E. Frey and P. M. A. Willis. 2006. The origin of modern crocodyliforms: new evidence from the Cretaceous of Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 273:2439-2448 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 100224: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 01.12.2010

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata -
Isisfordia duncani n. gen. n. sp.
Isisfordia duncani n. gen. n. sp. Salisbury et al. 2006 crocodilian