Yambore Creek (Cretaceous of Australia)

Also known as Tuarangisaurus australis type locality

Where: Queensland, Australia (20.7° S, 142.1° E: paleocoordinates 54.2° S, 127.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Toolebuc Formation (Rolling Downs Group), Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Sachs. 2005. Tuarangisaurus australis sp. nov. (Plesiosauria: Elasmosauridae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Northeastern Queensland, with additional notes on the phylogeny of the Elasmosauridae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 50(2):425-440 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 140907: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 19.03.2013

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
"Tuarangisaurus australis n. sp." = Eromangasaurus australis
"Tuarangisaurus australis n. sp." = Eromangasaurus australis Sachs 2005 elasmosaur
Holotype: QMF11050, near-complete skull