Macedon 3 drill core, near Exmouth (Cretaceous of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (21.9° S, 114.1° E: paleocoordinates 46.8° S, 69.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Barrow Group, Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core,

• BHP Australia Macedon 3 core

Primary reference: J. A. Long and A. R. I. Cruickshank. 1998. Further records of plesiosaurian reptiles of Jurassic and Cretaceous age from Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 19:47-55 [M. Carrano/H. Street]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 110534: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 10.06.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Plesiosauria - Leptocleididae
? Leptocleidus sp. Andrews 1922 plesiosaur
WAM 95.12.1 cervical vertebra