Mount Morgan marine reptiles (Jurassic to of Australia)

Also known as Mt. Morgan

Where: Queensland, Australia (23.6° S, 150.4° E: paleocoordinates 68.7° S, 129.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Late/Upper Jurassic to Late/Upper Jurassic (163.5 - 100.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithified, ferruginous conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with limonite

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: A. Bartholomai. 1966. The discovery of plesiosaurian remains in freshwater sediments in Queensland. The Australian Journal of Science 28(11):437 [M. Carrano/H. Street]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 99161: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 29.10.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Polypodiopsida
 Cyatheales - Polypodiidae
Coniopteris hymenophylloides Brongniart 1828 scaly tree fern
 Gleicheniales - Polypodiidae
Hausmannia sp. Dunker 1846
Ginkgoopsida
 Ginkgoales - Ginkgoaceae
Ginkgo digitata Brongniart 1830 ginkgo
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Elatocladus sp. Halle 1913 podocarp
leaf fragments
Reptilia
 Plesiosauria - Leptocleididae
cf. Leptocleidus sp. Andrews 1922 plesiosaur
related to Leptocleidus; fragments from at least on juvanile and at least one adult