Canary Station, Hughenden area (Cretaceous of Australia)

Also known as Boulia

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Pseudoceratium ludbrookiae Zone/ upper Coptospora paradoxa-Phimopollenites pannosus Zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. Rozefelds in 1990

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: B. P. Kear, W. E. Boles, and E. T. Smith. 2003. Unusual gut contents in a Cretaceous ichthyosaur. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 270:206-208 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122712: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 05.01.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham and Jonathan Tennant

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Chimaeriformes - Callorhynchidae
Ptyktoptychion wadeae1 Bartholomai 2008 plownose chimaera
Collected by Tom Hurley
Gnathostomata
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Actinopterygii indet. ray-finned fish
Gut content of Platypterygius
Aves
 Alexornithiformes - Alexornithidae
Nanantius sp.2 Molnar 1986 bird
Gut content of Platypterygius - left proximal tibiotarsus (QM F31813)
Reptilia
 Ichthyosauria - Ophthalmosauridae
"Platypterygius longmani" = Platypterygius australis
"Platypterygius longmani" = Platypterygius australis McCoy 1867 ichthyosaur
QM F16811- partial skeleton with an exceptionally preserved foetal skull and fragmentary skeleton preserved within the body cavity
 Testudines - Protostegidae
Protostegidae indet. Cope 1873 sea turtle
Gut content of Platypterygius - several hatchling-sized, disarticulated individuals