Wollaston, Lightning Ridge: Early/Lower Cenomanian, Australia
collected 1905

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758
Rich et al. 1989 1 specimen
Mammalia - Monotremata - Ornithorhynchidae
Steropodon galmani n. gen., n. sp. Archer et al. 1985
Archer et al. 1985 1 specimen
AM F66763
Reptilia - Testudines
Chelonia indet. (Latreille 1800)
Molnar 1980
synonym of Testudines
Reptilia - Neovenatoridae
Rapator ornitholestoides n. gen., n. sp. Huene 1932
Huene 1932 1 specimen
BMNH R3718
Reptilia
Walgettosuchus woodwardi n. gen., n. sp. Huene 1932
Huene 1932 1 specimen
nomen dubium belonging to Theropoda
BMNH R3717
Hypsilophodontidae indet. Dollo 1882
Molnar and Galton 1986 2 specimens
    = Ornithopoda indet. Marsh 1881
Agnolin et al. 2010
Fulgurotherium australe n. gen., n. sp. Huene 1932
Huene 1932 2 specimens
BMNH R3719
Brachiosauridae indet. Riggs 1904
Molnar 1980 2 specimens
AM F66769, 66770
    = Titanosauriformes indet. Salgado et al. 1997
Molnar and Salisbury 2005
Crocodyliformes indet. Hay 1930
Molnar and Willis 2000 4 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:New South Wales
Coordinates: 29.4° South, 148.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:59.3° South, 140.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:169 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Cenomanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 5
Key time interval:Early/Lower Cenomanian Pollen zone: Coptospora paradoxa
Age range of interval:100.50000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Rolling Downs Formation:Griman Creek Member:Wallangulla Sandstone
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: opal-bearing claystone
Environment:estuary/bay
Geology comments: "deposited in an estuary, apparently that of a river flowing west into an inland sea."
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,cast
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Articulated whole bodies:some
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:many
Disassociated minor elements:many
Fragmentation:frequent
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (float),field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection dates:1905
Metadata
Also known as:Griman Creek
Database number:38539
Authorizer:M. Carrano, M. Uhen Enterer:M. Carrano, M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-04-23 12:36:23 Last modified:2022-01-13 15:40:01
Access level:the public Released:2004-04-23 12:36:23
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
17365.ETE A. S. Woodward. 1910. On remains of a megalosaurian dinosaur from New South Wales. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 79:482-483 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/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]
32551 M. Archer, T. F. Flannery, A. Ritchie and R. E. Molnar. 1985. First Mesozoic mammal from Australia-- an early Cretaceous monotreme. Nature 318:363-366 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
17490ETE W. P. Coombs, Jr. and R. E. Molnar. 1981. Sauropoda (Reptilia, Saurischia) from the Cretaceous of Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 20(2):351-373 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
74243 T. G. Frauenfelder, N. E. Campione, E. T. Smith and P. R. Bell. 2021. Diversity and palaeoecology of Australia's southern‐most sauropods, Griman Creek Formation (Cenomanian), New South Wales, Australia. Lethaia 54:354-367 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/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]
29483ETE F. v. Huene. 1932. Die fossile Reptil-Ordnung Saurischia, ihre Entwicklung und Geschichte [The fossil reptile order Saurischia, their development and history]. Monographien zur Geologie und Palaeontologie, serie 1 4(1-2):1-361 [M. Carrano/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]
63423 R. E. Molnar. 1991. Fossil reptiles in Australia. In P. Vickers-Rich, J. M. Monaghan, R. F. Baird, & T. H. Rich (eds.), Vertebrate Paleontology of Australasia 605-702 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
45869 R. E. Molnar. 2011. Sauropod (Saurischia: Dinosauria) material from the Early Cretaceous Griman Creek Formation of the Surat Basin, Queensland, Australia. Alcheringa 35(2):303-307 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano]
10595 R. E. Molnar and P. M. Galton. 1986. Hypsilophodontid dinosaurs from Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia. Géobios 19(2):231-239 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]
19582ETE R. E. Molnar and S. W. Salisbury. 2005. Observations on Cretaceous sauropods from Australia. In K. Carpenter and V. Tidwell (eds.), Thunder-Lizards: The Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 454-465 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
10347 R. E. Molnar and P. M. A. Willis. 2000. New crocodyliform material from the Early Cretaceous Griman Creek Formation, at Lightning Ridge, New South Wales. Crocodilian Biology and Evolution, G. C. Gridd, F. Seebacher, and C. E. Franklin (eds.), Surrey Beatty & Sons, Chipping Norton, England 75-82 [M. Carrano/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]
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]
18059ETE 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]
32599 T. H. V. Rich, T. F. Flannery, and M. Archer. 1989. A second Cretaceous mammalian specimen from Lightning Ridge, NSW, Australia. Alcheringa 13(2):85-88 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/J. Tennant]
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]
15490ETE R. Steel. 1970. Part 14. Saurischia. Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie/Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart 1-87 [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]