Vertical Bill's claim, Three Mile opal field (Cretaceous of Australia)

Also known as Three-Mile Field, Lightning Ridge

Where: New South Wales, Australia (29.5° S, 148.0° E: paleocoordinates 59.3° S, 140.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone

• opal-bearing claystone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: cast

Collected by E. Long in 1914; 1991

Collection methods: bulk, salvage,

• collected by Edward Long in 1991

Primary reference: R. E. Molnar and P. M. A. Willis. 2000. New crocodyliform material from the Early Cretaceous Griman Creek Formation, at Lightning Ridge, New South Wales. Crocodilian Biology and Evolution, G. C. Gridd, F. Seebacher, and C. E. Franklin (eds.), Surrey Beatty & Sons, Chipping Norton, England 75-82 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 68558: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.01.2007, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Synapsida -
? Synapsida indet.3 Osborn 1903 synapsid
AMF 118621
Reptilia
 Loricata -
"Crocodilus selaslophensis n. sp." = Isisfordia selaslophensis
"Crocodilus selaslophensis n. sp." = Isisfordia selaslophensis Etheridge 1917 crocodilian
AM F15818 - type
 Ornithischia -
Ankylosauria indet.1 Osborn 1923 ankylosaur
LRF 3144 (osteoderm) - from an unspecified claim in the Three Mile Field, added here for convenience
 Theropoda -
Megaraptora indet.2 Benson et al. 2010 coelurosaur
AM F112816, mid-caudal vertebral centrum