Dinosaur Cove East (Cretaceous of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (38.8° S, 143.4° E: paleocoordinates 74.0° S, 118.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Eumeralla Formation (Otway Group), Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; lithology not reported

• broad temperate river floodplain

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 1980-

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: T. F. Flannery and T. H. Rich. 1981. Dinosaur digging in Victoria. Australian Natural History 20(6):195-198 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 38534: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.04.2004, edited by Roger Benson

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
 Ornithischia -
Ornithischia indet.1 Seeley 1888 ornithischian
"protoceratopsian"; NMV P186399
Ornithopoda indet.1 Marsh 1881 ornithopod
femur type 1; NMV P185976, 185995, 185999
Iguanodontia indet.1 ornithopod
NMV P177935, 185961, 186236
Atlascopcosaurus loadsi n. gen. n. sp.6 Rich and Vickers-Rich 1989 ornithopod
NMV P166409, 157390, 182967a, 186466
Leaellynasaura amicagraphica6 Rich and Vickers-Rich 1989 ornithopod
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.2 Marsh 1881 theropod
NMV P185858 (distal caudal vertebra)
Tetanurae indet.2 Gauthier 1986 tetanuran theropod
NMV P208234 (dorsal vertebra)
Maniraptora indet.2 Gauthier 1986 maniraptoran
NMV P186302, 186386
Timimus hermani n. gen. n. sp.7 Rich and Vickers-Rich 1994 coelurosaur
NMV P186303, 186323
 Pterosauria -
 Testudinata -
Otwayemys cunicularius3 Gaffney et al. 1998 turtle