White Cliffs (NSW): Aptian, Australia
collected by Etheridge 1890
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Ophthalmosauridae
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Platypterygius sp.
von Huene 1922
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Etheridge 1904 | 4 elements | ||||||||
| vertebral centra | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Theropoda
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Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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Molnar 1980 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| phalanx | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
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Plesiosauria indet.
de Blainville 1835
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Kear 2005 | 2 elements | ||||||||
| propodials | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
- Pliosauridae
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Kronosaurus queenslandicus
Longman 1924
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Longman 1924 | 2 elements | ||||||||
| teeth: AM L508, AM L1894 | ||||||||||
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= Kronosaurus sp.
Longman 1924
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Kear 2005 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
- Elasmosauridae
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Cimoliasaurus maccoyi n. sp.
Etheridge 1904
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Etheridge 1904 | 3 elements | ||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Cimoliasaurus | ||||||||||
| vertebral centra, humerus | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
- Polycotylidae
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Cimoliasaurus leucoscopelus
Etheridge 1897
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Polycotylidae | ||||||||||
| cervical vertebrae, humeri, teeth, rib fragments, phalanges | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | New South Wales | County: | Central Darling Shire |
| Coordinates: | 30.9° South, 143.1° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 68.9° South, 118.8° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Altitude: | 154 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Aptian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 3 |
| Key time interval: | Aptian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 121.40000 - 113.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Wallumbilla | Member: | Doncaster | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Originally listed as the Coreena Formation. "The Doncaster Member of the Wallumbilla Formation is generally regarded as Early AptianeEarly Albian in age on the basis of palynological (Helby et al., 1987; Burger, 1988) and macroinvertebrate (Day, 1969) data. However, in the White Cliffs area, the unit is represented by rocks of predominantly Aptian age (see Burton and Mason, 1998). This broad age range is applied to all marine reptile fossils from the White Cliffs deposits and corresponds to the Cyclosporites hughesiie - lowermost Crybelosporites striatus spore-pollen zones, and Odontochitina operculatae-Diconodinium davidii dinoflagellate zones of Helby et al. (1987)." | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "The opal-bearing deposits of White Cliffs are typically characterised by weathering-bleached siltstones and claystones." (Kear, 2005) | |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
| Geology comments: "a predominantly near-shore-coastal shallow marine (possibly with anoxic bottom conditions) sequence" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,replaced with silica |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Abundance in sediment: | few |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection,survey of museum collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Collectors: | Etheridge | Collection dates: | 1890s |
Metadata
| Database number: | 60762 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion | Enterer: | M. Carrano, J. Tennant, H. Street |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-05-22 12:08:25 | Last modified: | 2024-04-19 13:49:32 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-05-22 12:08:25 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 36385. | ETE | R. Etheridge Jr. 1897. An Australian sauropterygian (Cimoliosaurus), converted into precious opal. Records of the Australian Museum 3(1):19-29 [M. Carrano/H. Street/H. Street] |
Secondary references:
| 36387 | ETE | R., J.r. Etheridge. 1904. A second sauropterygian converted into opal from the Upper Cretaceous of White Cliffs, New South Wales. With indications of ichthyopterygians at the same locality. Records of the Australian Museum 5(5):306-316 [M. Carrano/H. Street/P. Wagner] |
| 88224 | B. P. Kear. 2002. Reassessment of the Early Cretaceous plesiosaur Cimoliasaurus maccoyi Etheridge, 1904 (REptilia: Sauropterygia) from White Cliffs, New South Wales. Australian Journal of Zoology 50:671-685 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 36417 | ETE | B. P. Kear. 2005. Marine reptiles from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) deposits of White Cliffs, southeastern Australia: implications of a high latitude, cold water assemblage. Cretaceous Research 26(5):769-782 [M. Carrano/H. Street] |
| 44309 | H. A. Longman. 1924. Some Queensland fossil vertebrates. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8(1):16-28 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano] | |
| 10348 | R. E. Molnar. 1980. Australian late Mesozoic continental tetrapods: some implications. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France, Nouvelle Série 139:131-143 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 46676 | P. M. Sander. 2000. Ichthyosauria: their diversity, distribution and phylogeny. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 74(1/2):1-35 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant] | |
| 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] |