List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Ophthalmosauridae
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Ophthalmosauridae indet.
Andrews 1910
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Kear 2003 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
- Leptocleididae
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Umoonasaurus demoscyllus
Kear et al. 2006
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1 individual | |||||||||
| SAM P31050 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | South Australia |
| Coordinates: | 29.3° South, 137.4° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 64.2° South, 111.9° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Rolling Downs | Formation: | Bulldog Shale | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "Cyclosporites hughesii, Crybelosporites striatus zones / Odontochitina operculata, Diconodinium davidii and Muderongia tetracantha zones." Marree Subgroup. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Abundance in sediment: | few |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Collection size: | 1 individuals |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 103084 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano, V. Fischer | Enterer: | H. Street, V. Fischer |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-01-22 08:56:25 | Last modified: | 2017-06-02 14:50:20 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-01-22 08:56:25 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 34852. | B. P. Kear, N. I. Schroeder, and M. S. Y. Lee. 2006. An archaic crested plesiosaur in opal from the Lower Cretaceous high-latitude deposits of Australia. Biology Letters 2:615-619 [M. Carrano/H. Street] |
Secondary references:
| 36419 | ETE | B. P. Kear. 2003. Cretaceous marine reptiles of Australia: a review of taxonomy and distribution. Cretaceous Research 24(3):277-303 [M. Carrano/H. Street] |