Lightning Ridge (General area) (Cretaceous of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (29.4° S, 148.0° E: paleocoordinates 59.3° S, 140.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• early-middle to middle-late Albian

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithified, glauconitic, muddy, sandy siltstone

• "coastal plain, fluvatile/estuarine depositional setting"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: cast, trace

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: R. E. Molnar. 1991. Fossil reptiles in Australia. In P. Vickers-Rich, J. M. Monaghan, R. F. Baird, & T. H. Rich (eds.), Vertebrate Paleontology of Australasia 605-702 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 97756: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 27.08.2010, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Ornithopoda indet. Marsh 1881 ornithopod
"Les Price track" (dubious)
? Ornithopoda indet.2 Marsh 1881 ornithopod
AM F105673, 127930, LRF 3330 (neonate femora)
 Plesiosauria -
Pliosauroidea indet.1 Welles 1943 plesiosaur
AM F43240, AM F68333, AM F68334, AM F68336, AM F68338, AM F68344, AM F72261, AM F105661, AM F106554, AM F112630, AM F112843, AM F112844, AM F112845, AM F112846, AM F112847, AM F112848, AM F112849, AM F121675, AM F121678, AM F121679, AM F121713, AM F121714, AM F121715, AM F121716, AM F121717, AM F121718, AM F121719, AM F121720
 Testudines - Chelidae
Chelidae indet.3 Gray 1825 sideneck turtle
AM F682668, F121611