Dinosaur Cove East: Early/Lower Albian, Australia
collected 1980-
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Dinosauria
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Dinosauria indet.
Owen 1842
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Rich et al. 1988 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Theropoda indet.
(Marsh 1881)
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Benson et al. 2012 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
NMV P185858 (distal caudal vertebra) | ||||||||||
Tetanurae indet.
Gauthier 1986
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Benson et al. 2012 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
NMV P208234 (dorsal vertebra) | ||||||||||
Oviraptorosauria indet.
Barsbold 1976
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Currie et al. 1996 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
NMV P186302, 186386 | ||||||||||
= Dromaeosauridae indet.
Colbert and Russell 1969
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Agnolin et al. 2010 | |||||||||
vertebra; surangular referred to Theropoda indet. | ||||||||||
= Maniraptora indet.
Gauthier 1986
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Benson et al. 2012 | |||||||||
Timimus hermani n. gen., n. sp.
Rich and Vickers-Rich 1994
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Rich and Vickers-Rich 1994 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
NMV P186303, 186323 (2 measurements) | ||||||||||
Neoceratopsia indet.
Sereno 1986
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Rich and Vickers-Rich 2003 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
"protoceratopsian"; NMV P186399 | ||||||||||
= Ornithischia indet.
Seeley 1888
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Agnolin et al. 2010 | |||||||||
Hypsilophodontidae informal indet. C
Dollo 1882
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Rich et al. 1988 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
femur type 1; NMV P185976, 185995, 185999 | ||||||||||
= Ornithopoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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Agnolin et al. 2010 | |||||||||
Fulgurotherium australe
Huene 1932
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Rich et al. 1988 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
NMV P177935, 185961, 186236 | ||||||||||
= Iguanodontia indet.
Baur 1891
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Agnolin et al. 2010 | |||||||||
Hypsilophodontidae informal indet. B
Dollo 1882
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Rich et al. 1988 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
NMV P166409, 157390, 182967a, 186466 | ||||||||||
= Atlascopcosaurus loadsi n. gen., n. sp.
Rich and Vickers-Rich 1989
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Rich and Vickers-Rich 1989 | |||||||||
Hypsilophodontidae informal indet. A
Dollo 1882
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Rich et al. 1988 | 5 specimens | ||||||||
= Leaellynasaura amicagraphica
Rich and Vickers-Rich 1989
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Rich and Vickers-Rich 1989 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Pterosauria
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Pterosauria indet.
Kaup 1834
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Rich et al. 1992 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Testudines indet.
Batsch 1788
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Rich et al. 1988 | 6 specimens | ||||||||
= Otwayemys cunicularius
Gaffney et al. 1998
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Gaffney et al. 1998 | |||||||||
NMV P185883; NMV P186233 (left xiphiplastron); NMV P201020 (partial right hyoplastron and hypoplastron); NMV P186224 (fifth cervical vertebra); NMV P187261 (eighth cervical vertebra); NMV P197768 (anterior caudal vertebra) | ||||||||||
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 |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
Stage: | Albian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 4 |
Key time interval: | Early/Lower Albian | ||
Age range of interval: | 113.00000 - 109.90000 m.y. ago |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | "floodplain" |
Geology comments: broad temperate river floodplain |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Spatial orientation: | life position |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
Associated major elements: | some |
Disassociated major elements: | many |
Disassociated minor elements: | many |
Fragmentation: | occasional |
Temporal resolution: | time-averaged |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | Collection dates: | 1980- |
Metadata
Database number: | 38534 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano, R. Benson | Enterer: | M. Carrano, R. Benson |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2004-04-23 11:42:47 | Last modified: | 2023-01-20 15:57:40 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-04-23 11:42:47 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
63316. | T. F. Flannery and T. H. Rich. 1981. Dinosaur digging in Victoria. Australian Natural History 20(6):195-198 [M. Carrano/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] |
41603 | R. B. J. Benson, T. H. Rich, P. Vickers Rich and M. Hall. 2012. Theropod fauna from southern Australia indicates high polar diversity and climate-driven dinosaur provinciality. PLoS ONE 7(5):e37122 [R. Benson/R. Benson/O. Alfaro] | |
10343 | P. J. Currie, P. Vickers-Rich, and T. H. Rich. 1996. Possible oviraptorosaur (Theropoda, Dinosauria) specimens from the Early Cretaceous Otway Group of Dinosaur Cove, Australia. Alcheringa 20:73-79 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
34458 | T. L. Fletcher and S. W. Salisbury. 2010. New pterosaur fossils from the Early Cretaceous (Albian) of Queensland, Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(6):1747-1759 [R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
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] | |
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] | |
76422 | S. F. Poropat. 2019. Final report. Winston Churchill Memorial Trust of Australia 1-56 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
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] |
10340 | T. Rich and P. Vickers-Rich. 2003. Protoceratopsian? ulnae from Australia. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum Launceston 113:1-12 [M. Carrano/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] | |
63249 | T. H. Rich and P. Vickers-Rich. 1994. Digs at Dinosaur Cove and Flat Rocks 1994. Excavation Report: Dinosaur Cove 1993–1994 & Inverloch 1994 1-4 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
10341 | T. H. Rich and P. Vickers-Rich. 1994. Neoceratopsians and ornithomimosaurs: dinosaurs of Gondwana origin?. National Geographic Research and Exploration 10(1):129-131 [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] | |
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] | |
61518 | D. B. Weishampel and J. B. Weishampel. 1983. Annotated localities of ornithopod dinosaurs: implications to Mesozoic paleobiogeography. The Mosasaur 1:43-87 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |