The Arch, Kilcunda: Late/Upper Aptian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Dinosauria indet. (Owen 1842)
Rich and Vickers-Rich 2020
Serendipaceratops arthurcclarkei n. gen., n. sp. Rich and Vickers-Rich 2003
Rich and Vickers-Rich 2003 1 specimen
NMV P186385
Ornithopoda indet. (Marsh 1881)
Rich and Vickers-Rich 2020
Fulgurotherium australe Huene 1932
Rich et al. 1988 1 specimen
NMV P164998
    = Iguanodontia indet. Baur 1891
Agnolin et al. 2010
Theropoda indet. (Marsh 1881)
Benson et al. 2012 1 specimen
NMV P186151 (pedal phalanx)
Megaraptora indet. Benson et al. 2010
Rich and Vickers-Rich 2020
unclassified
Actinopterygii indet. (Cope 1887)
Rich and Vickers-Rich 2020
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Victoria
Coordinates: 38.5° South, 145.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:76.8° South, 116.9° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:21 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 2-3
Key time interval:Late/Upper Aptian
Age range of interval:119.50000 - 113.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Strzelecki Formation:Wonthaggi
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:fluvial indet. Tectonic setting:rift
Geology comments: broad, temperate river floodplain
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Disassociated major elements:some
Fragmentation:occasional
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: NMV, Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Metadata
Database number:38535
Authorizer:M. Carrano, R. Benson Enterer:M. Carrano, R. Benson
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-04-23 11:48:49 Last modified:2017-09-13 16:34:47
Access level:the public Released:2004-04-23 11:48:49
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:

32702ETE 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]
51909 A. Constantine, A. Chinsamy, P. Vickers-Rich and T. H. Rich. 1998. Periglacial environments and polar dinosaurs. South African Journal of Science [M. Carrano/A. Murch]
63253 L. Kool, N. A. Van Klaveren, D. Seegets Villiers, T. H. RIch, and P. Vickers-Rich. 1998. Dinosaur Dreaming 1998 annual report. Dinosaur Dreaming: Flat Rocks Site Report, 1998 1-21 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
63256 L. Kool, N. A. Van Klaveren, D. Seegets-Villiers and T. H. Rich. 1999. Dinosaur Dreaming 1999 annual report. Dinosaur Dreaming: Flat Rocks Site Report, 1999 1-18 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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]
19908ETE 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]
50876 T. H. Rich, B. P. Kear, R. Sinclair, B. Chinnery, K. Carpenter, M. L. McHugh, and P. Vickers-Rich. 2014. Serendipaceratops arthurcclarkei Rich & Vickers-Rich, 2003 is an Australian Early Cretaceous ceratopsian. Alcheringa 38(4):456-479 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano]
34284ETE 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]
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]
63329 N. A. Van Klaveren. 2001. Excavation report. Dinosaur Draming: Flat Rocks Site Report 2001 9-12 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]