north of Kalbarri: Hauterivian - Barremian, Australia
collected by J. Long 1992-1994, 1996
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Tetanurae indet.
Gauthier 1986
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| WAM 96.5.1,caudal vertebra | ||||||||||
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= Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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Agnolin et al. 2010 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
- Leptocleididae
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Leptocleidus sp.
Andrews 1922
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1 individual | |||||||||
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Leptocleidus clemai n. sp.
Cruickshank and Long 1997
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Cruickshank and Long 1997 | 3 individuals | ||||||||
| WAM 92.8.1-1 to 68; WAM 94.1.6-1 to 100; WAM 96.5.2 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Western Australia | County: | Kalbarri region |
| Coordinates: | 27.7° South, 114.2° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 52.6° South, 68.4° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Altitude: | 25 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 2 | ||
| Key time interval: | Hauterivian - Barremian | Other zone: | Muderongia australis |
| Age range of interval: | 132.60000 - 121.40000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Barrow | Formation: | Birdrong Sandstone | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Upper meter of the Birdrong Sandstone, Early Cretaceous. Possibly in the overlying Windalia Sandstone Member of the Murderong Shale | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | glauconitic sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
| Geology comments: "At its type section on Mardathuna Station, northeast of Carnarvon, the Birdrong Sandstone begins with a fluviatile phase of deposition, followed by deltaic and shallow marine facies (Hocking et al. 1987)." | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Abundance in sediment: | few |
| Associated major elements: | all |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | J. Long | Collection dates: | 1992-1994, 1996 |
| Collection method comments: Fossil wood associated with the pliosaurs contains fossil pholadid bivalve borings and hyphae of saprophytic fungi | |||
Metadata
| Also known as: | Murchison House Station | ||
| Database number: | 55309 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | K. Maguire, H. Street, M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-10-07 10:34:00 | Last modified: | 2022-01-13 15:28:35 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-10-07 10:34:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 14798. | ETE | J. A. Long and A. R. I. Cruickshank. 1996. First record of an Early Cretaceous theropod dinosaur bone from Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 18:219-222 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 32702 | ETE | F. L. Agnolin, M. D. Ezcurra, D. F. Pais and S. W. Salisbury. 2010. A reappraisal of the Cretaceous non-avian dinosaur faunas from Australia and New Zealand: evidence for their Gondwanan affinities. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 8(2):257-300 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 41617 | M. T. Carrano, R. B. J. Benson, and S. D. Sampson. 2012. The phylogeny of Tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10(2):211-300 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 36384 | ETE | A. R. I. Cruickshank and J. A. Long. 1997. A new species of pliosaurid reptile from the Early Cretaceous Birdrong Sandstone of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 18:263-276 [M. Carrano/H. Street] |
| 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] |
| 62321 | S. W. Salisbury, A. Romilio, M. C. Herne, R. T. Tucker, and J. P. Nair. 2016. The Dinosaurian Ichnofauna of the Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian–Barremian) Broome Sandstone of the Walmadany Area (James Price Point), Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 16. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(6, suppl.):1-152 [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] | |
| 76625 | M. Siverson. 2011. Vertebrate fossil-bearing strata of Cretaceous age in the Lower Murchison River area, Western Australia. CAVEPS Perth 2011,13th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution Palaeontology and Systematics. Geological Survey of Western Australia Record 2011(9):77 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |