Dinosaur Cove West: Early/Lower Albian, Australia
collected 1984-1985
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
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Plesiosauria indet.
de Blainville 1835
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= Pliosauroidea indet.
Welles 1943
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Kear 2006 | |||||||||
= Plesiosauria informal smaller taxon
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Benson et al. 2013 | |||||||||
NMV P182958 (tooth) | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Dinosauria
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Dinosauria indet.
Owen 1842
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Reptilia
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Hypsilophodontidae informal indet. B
Dollo 1882
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1 specimen | |||||||||
"Victorian hypsilophodont B" | ||||||||||
= Atlascopcosaurus loadsi
Rich and Vickers-Rich 1989
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Rich and Vickers-Rich 1989 | |||||||||
Hypsilophodontidae informal indet. A
Dollo 1882
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1 specimen | |||||||||
"Victorian hypsilophodont A" | ||||||||||
= Leaellynasaura amicagraphica
Rich and Vickers-Rich 1989
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Rich and Vickers-Rich 1989 | |||||||||
Testudines indet.
Batsch 1788
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1 specimen | |||||||||
= Otwayemys cunicularius
Gaffney et al. 1998
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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
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] | |
34284 | ETE | 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] | |
18059 | ETE | 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] |