Dinosaur Cove West: Early/Lower Albian, Australia
collected 1984-1985

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Plesiosauria
Plesiosauria indet. de Blainville 1835
    = Pliosauroidea indet. Welles 1943
Kear 2006
    = Plesiosauria informal smaller taxon
Benson et al. 2013
NMV P182958 (tooth)
Reptilia - Dinosauria
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842
Reptilia
Hypsilophodontidae informal indet. B Dollo 1882
1 specimen
"Victorian hypsilophodont B"
    = Atlascopcosaurus loadsi Rich and Vickers-Rich 1989
Rich and Vickers-Rich 1989
Hypsilophodontidae informal indet. A Dollo 1882
1 specimen
"Victorian hypsilophodont A"
    = Leaellynasaura amicagraphica Rich and Vickers-Rich 1989
Rich and Vickers-Rich 1989
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788
1 specimen
    = Otwayemys cunicularius Gaffney et al. 1998
Gaffney et al. 1998
NMV P180929 (peripheral)
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Victoria
Coordinates: 38.8° South, 143.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:74.0° South, 118.5° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Albian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 4
Key time interval:Early/Lower Albian Pollen zone: Crybelosporites striatus
Age range of interval:112.03000 - 109.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Otway Formation:Eumeralla
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: stratigraphically above Dinosaur Cove East
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:planar lamination lithified sandstone
Secondary lithology:planar lamination lithified conglomeratic mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:"floodplain" Tectonic setting:rift
Geology comments: The Wonthaggi Formation (Strzelecki Group) and middle Eumeralla
Formation (Otway Group) comprise finely laminated sandstones and
mudstones with locally abundant horizontally stratified fossiliferous claystone/
mudstone conglomerates. These were laid down by meandering to
braided river systems in a mid-Cretaceous rift valley flood plain formed
as a result of the onset of rifting between Australia and Antarctica
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:random
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Fragmentation:frequent
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection dates:1984-1985
Metadata
Database number:38537
Authorizer:M. Carrano, R. Benson Enterer:M. Carrano, R. Benson, H. Street
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-04-23 12:23:59 Last modified:2023-01-20 15:57:46
Access level:the public Released:2004-04-23 12:23:59
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

19908.ETE P. V. Rich, T. R. Rich, B. E. Wagstaff, J. M. Mason, C. B. Douthitt, R. T. Gregory, and E. A. Felton. 1988. Evidence for low temperatures and biologic diversity in Cretaceous high latitudes of Australia. Science 242(4884):1403-1406 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

46098 R. B. J. Benson, E. M. G. Fitzgerald, T. H. Rich and P. Vickers Rich. 2013. Large freshwater plesiosaurian from the Cretaceous (Aptian) of Australia. Alcheringa [R. Benson/R. Benson/O. Alfaro]
41668 E. S. Gaffney, L. Kool, D. B. Brinkman, T. H. Rich, and P. Vickers-Rich. 1998. Otwayemys, a new cryptodiran turtle from the Early Cretaceous of Australia. American Museum Novitates 3233:1-28 [R. Benson/R. Benson/P. Holroyd]
33413 B. P. Kear. 2006. Plesiosaur remains from Cretaceous high-latitude non-marine deposits in southeastern Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(1):196-199 [M. Carrano/H. Street]
63257 L. Kool, N. A. Van Klaveren, T. H. Rich, D. Seegets-Villiers, K. Bacheller, A. Fraser, and L. Fletcher. 2000. Dinosaur Dreaming 2000 annual report. Dinosaur Dreaming: Flat Rocks Site Report, 2000 1-29 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
34284ETE T. H. Rich, P. V. Rich, B. E. Wagstaff, J. R. C. M. Mason, T. F. Flannery, M. Archer, R. E. Molnar and J. A. Long. 1992. Two possible chronological anomalies in the Early Cretaceous tetrapod assemblages of southeastern Australia. In N. J. Mateer & P.-J. Chen (ed.), Aspects of Nonmarine Cretaceous Geology. China Ocean Press, Beijing 165-176 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/O. Alfaro]
10342 T. H. Rich and P. Vickers-Rich. 1989. Polar dinosaurs and biotas of the Early Cretaceous of southeastern Australia. National Geographic Research 5(1):15-53 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
63248 T. H. Rich and P. Vickers-Rich. 1994. Dig at Dinosaur Cove 1993. Excavation Report: Dinosaur Cove 1993–1994 & Inverloch 1994 1-8 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
18059ETE T. H. Rich and P. Vickers-Rich. 2003. A Century of Australian Dinosaurs. Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery and Monash Science Centre, Monash University 1-124 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
83736 T. H. Rich and P. Vickers-Rich. 2020. Dinosaurs of Darkness (second edition) 1-310 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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]