Also known as Murchison House Station
Where: Western Australia, Australia (27.7° S, 114.2° E: paleocoordinates 52.6° S, 68.4° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Muderongia australis other zone, Birdrong Sandstone Formation (Barrow Group), Hauterivian to Hauterivian (132.9 - 125.0 Ma)
• Upper meter of the Birdrong Sandstone, Early Cretaceous. Possibly in the overlying Windalia Sandstone Member of the Murderong Shale
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; glauconitic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. Long in 1992-1994, 1996
Collection methods: surface (float), mechanical,
• Fossil wood associated with the pliosaurs contains fossil pholadid bivalve borings and hyphae of saprophytic fungi
Primary reference: J. A. Long and A. R. I. Cruickshank. 1996. First record of an Early Cretaceous theropod dinosaur bone from Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 18:219-222 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 55309: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 07.10.2005, edited by Hallie Street and Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Leptocleidus sp. Andrews 1922 plesiosaur
Leptocleidus clemai n. sp.2 Cruickshank and Long 1997 plesiosaur WAM 92.8.1-1 to 68; WAM 94.1.6-1 to 100; WAM 96.5.2
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