Lydia Downs Station, Nelia (Cretaceous of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (20.9° S, 143.8° E: paleocoordinates 52.1° S, 132.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: P. ludbrookiae nannofossil zone, Toolebuc Formation (Rolling Downs Group), Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. M. Sander. 2000. Ichthyosauria: their diversity, distribution and phylogeny. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 74(1/2):1-35 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122702: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 05.01.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ichthyosauria - Ophthalmosauridae
Platypterygius australis McCoy 1867 ichthyosaur
QM F2573 (left humerus with partial fin)