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
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
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"Crocodilus selaslophensis n. sp." = Isisfordia selaslophensis
"Crocodilus selaslophensis n. sp." = Isisfordia selaslophensis Etheridge 1917 crocodilian AM F15818 - type
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Ankylosauria indet.1 Osborn 1923 ankylosaur LRF 3144 (osteoderm) - from an unspecified claim in the Three Mile Field, added here for convenience
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