List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
- Leptocleididae
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? Woolungasaurus glendowerensis
Persson 1960
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1 individual | |||||||||
= Umoonasaurus demoscyllus
Kear et al. 2006
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Kear et al. 2006 | |||||||||
SAM P410550 (juvenile) | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Australia | State/province: | South Australia |
Coordinates: | 27.9° South, 135.9° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 62.4° South, 110.3° 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: | 103085 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | H. Street, M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2011-01-22 08:58:58 | Last modified: | 2022-01-13 15:33:41 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-01-22 08:58:58 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
63423. | 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] |
Secondary references:
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] | |
79070 | J. D. Scanlon. 2006. Dinosaurs and other Mesozoic reptiles of Australasia. In J. R. Merrick, M. Archer, G. M. Hickey, & M. S. Y. Lee (eds.), Evolution and Biogeography of Australasian Vertebrates 265-290 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |