The Boneyard, Nine Mile opal field (Cretaceous of Australia)

Also known as Bone Yard, Lightning Ridge

Where: New South Wales, Australia (29.4° S, 147.9° E: paleocoordinates 59.3° S, 140.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Coptospora paradoxa pollen zone, Wallangulla Sandstone Member (Griman Creek Formation), Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• in the ‘Finch clay facies’, interspersed within the Wallangulla Sandstone Member of the Griman Creek Formation. Early-middle or middle-late Albian based on pollen

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: P. R. Bell, M. C. Herne, T. Brougham and E. T. Smith. 2018. Ornithopod diversity in the Griman Creek Formation (Cenomanian), New South Wales, Australia. PeerJ 6:e6008:1-40 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 204931: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.09.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Iguanodontia indet. Baur 1891 ornithopod
AM F81865, maxillary tooth
 Theropoda -
Avetheropoda indet. Paul 1988 avetheropod
AM F106525, centrum articular surface