Dunraven Station, Hughenden area (Cretaceous of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (20.8° S, 144.2° E: paleocoordinates 52.1° S, 132.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• "latest mid to Upper Albian P. ludbrookiae Zone/upper C. paradoxa-P. pannosus Zone ([Moore et al., 1986]; [McMinn and Burger, 1986])"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, calcareous lime mudstone

• "fine-grained calcarous mudstone"

Size class: macrofossils

• "a near completejuvenile skull including in excess of 100 well preserved functional and replacement teeth from both the upper and lower jaws."

Collected by A. Crombie in 1899

Primary reference: H. A. Longman. 1924. Some Queensland fossil vertebrates. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8(1):16-28 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 110465: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 09.06.2011, edited by Roger Benson

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Plesiosauria - Pliosauridae
Kronosaurus queenslandicus n. gen. n. sp. Longman 1924 plesiosaur
QM F1609, mandible and teeth
 Ichthyosauria - Ophthalmosauridae
"Platypterygius longmani" = Platypterygius australis1
"Platypterygius longmani" = Platypterygius australis1 McCoy 1867 ichthyosaur
AM F98273 (articulated skull, juvenile), AM F90847–AM F90850 (incomplete basicranium, stapes, and posterior portions of pterygoids), AM F105835 (articulated anterior snout and mandible), AM F116939 (articulated skull), AM F116940 (articulated skull) , QM F15339 (articulated skull roof and quadrates) and AM F97620 (left humerus missing part of proximal head)
 Testudines - Protostegidae
Bouliachelys suteri n. gen. n. sp.2
Bouliachelys suteri n. gen. n. sp.2 Kear and Lee 2006 sea turtle
QM F31669, skull