east of Cape Paterson: Late/Upper Barremian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Hypsilophodontidae informal indet. D Dollo 1882
2 specimens
femur type 2
    = Fulgurotherium australe Huene 1932
Rich and Vickers-Rich 1999
NMV P156980, 186184
    = Ornithopoda indet. Marsh 1881
Agnolin et al. 2010
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Victoria
Coordinates: 38.7° South, 145.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:79.7° South, 95.5° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Barremian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 2
Key time interval:Late/Upper Barremian
Age range of interval:125.77000 - 121.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Strzelecki Formation:Wonthaggi
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:"floodplain"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:poor
Disassociated major elements:all
Fragmentation:extreme
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:38536
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-04-23 12:21:05 Last modified:2022-01-13 15:35:52
Access level:the public Released:2004-04-23 12:21:05
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
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]

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]
75855 M. C. Herne, J. P. Nair, A. R. Evans and A. M. Tait. 2019. New small-bodied ornithopods (Dinosauria, Neornithischia) from the Early Cretaceous Wonthaggi Formation (Strzelecki Group) of the Australian-Antarctic rift system, with revision of Qantassaurus intrepidus Rich and Vickers-Rich, 1999. Journal of Paleontology 93(3):543-584 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/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]
13869ETE T. H. Rich and P. Vickers-Rich. 1999. The Hypsilophodontidae from southeastern Australia. In Y. Tomida, T. H. Rich, and P. Vickers-Rich (eds.), Proceedings of the Second Gondwanan Dinosaur Symposium, National Science Museum Monographs 15:167-180 [M. Carrano/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]