Milanesia Beach tracksite: Aptian - Albian, Australia
collected by A. Martin, G. Denney 2010

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Theropoda
Theropoda indet. (Marsh 1881)
24 specimens
three size groups
unclassified
Skolithos sp. Haldemann 1840
Arenicolites sp. Salter 1857
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Victoria
Coordinates: 38.8° South, 143.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:74.8° South, 115.8° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Key time interval:Aptian - Albian
Age range of interval:121.40000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Otway Formation:Eumeralla
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:wave ripples,very fine,medium lithified sandstone
Secondary lithology:wave ripples siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "very fine to medium-grained sandstone and sandy siltstone. Sandstones and siltstones are thinly bedded (05.-70. cm) and ripple-laminated, with low-amplitude ripples"
Environment:fluvial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,trace
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Abundance in sediment:common
Associated major elements:many
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:A. Martin, G. Denney Collection dates:2010
Collection method comments: found on two float blocks
Metadata
Database number:185865
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2017-05-22 16:40:33 Last modified:2023-01-20 16:01:40
Access level:the public Released:2017-05-22 16:40:33
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

63428. A. J. Martin, T. H. Rich, M. Hall, P. Vickers-Rich, and G. Vazquez-Prokopec. 2012. A polar dinosaur-track assemblage from the Eumeralla Formation (Albian), Victoria, Australia. Alcheringa 36:171-188 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

82447 A. J. Martin. 2016. A close look at Victoria's first known dinosaur tracks. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 74:63-71 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
83736 T. H. Rich and P. Vickers-Rich. 2020. Dinosaurs of Darkness (second edition) 1-310 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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]