Macedon 3 drill core, near Exmouth: Berriasian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Leptocleididae
? Leptocleidus sp. Andrews 1922
1 specimen
WAM 95.12.1 cervical vertebra
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Western Australia
Coordinates: 21.9° South, 114.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.8° South, 69.6° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Berriasian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 1
Key time interval:Berriasian
Age range of interval:145.00000 - 139.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Barrow
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Abundance in sediment:rare
Fragmentation:occasional
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:core,survey of museum collection
Collection size:1 specimens
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: BHP Australia Macedon 3 core
Metadata
Database number:110534
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:H. Street
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-06-10 06:07:14 Last modified:2011-06-09 16:07:14
Access level:the public Released:2011-06-10 06:07:14
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
36377.ETE J. A. Long and A. R. I. Cruickshank. 1998. Further records of plesiosaurian reptiles of Jurassic and Cretaceous age from Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 19:47-55 [M. Carrano/H. Street]