Marathon Station, Flinders River (QM): Late/Upper Albian, Australia
collected by I. Ievers 1989-1990
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Plantae indet.
Haeckel 1866
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Molnar and Clifford 2000 | |||||||||
seeds, stems, and sporangia | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Myalinida
- Inoceramidae
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Inoceramus sp.
Sowerby 1814
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Molnar 1996 | |||||||||
Cephalopoda
- Ammonoidea
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Ammonoidea indet.
Zittel 1884
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Molnar 1996 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
- Elasmosauridae
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Elasmosauridae indet.
Cope 1869
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Kear 2003 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
exact locality unkown, but reliably from upper Flinders River region | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Ophthalmosauridae
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Platypterygius australis
(McCoy 1867)
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Zammit et al. 2010 | |||||||||
KKM R519 (44 caudal centra, complete left hind limb, right femur, partial right hind limb) and QM F18906 (left and right hind limbs) | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Minmi sp.
Molnar 1980
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1 individual | |||||||||
QM F18101 | ||||||||||
= Kunbarrasaurus ieversi n. gen., n. sp.
Leahey et al. 2015
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Leahey et al. 2015 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Echinorhiniformes
- Echinorhinidae
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Echinorhinus sp.
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Molnar 1996 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Australia | State/province: | Queensland |
Coordinates: | 20.9° South, 143.6° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 52.1° South, 132.0° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
Altitude: | 235 meters | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
Stage: | Albian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 4 |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Albian | ||
Age range of interval: | 105.30000 - 99.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Rolling Downs | Formation: | Toolebuc | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: originally described as from the "Allaru Mudstone" |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | concretionary,gray,yellow silty lime mudstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "silty buff-grey micrite concretions" | |
Environment: | basinal (carbonate) |
Geology comments: "deposited in the inland sea" |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,concretion,soft parts |
Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils |
Spatial orientation: | random |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
Articulated whole bodies: | some |
Disassociated minor elements: | some |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Collectors: | I. Ievers | Collection dates: | 1989-1990 |
Collection method comments: plants found in gut cavity as a cololite |
Metadata
Database number: | 47057 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion | Enterer: | M. Carrano, H. Street, P. Mannion |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | marine invertebrate,vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-02-03 08:46:21 | Last modified: | 2022-01-13 15:49:11 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-02-03 08:46:21 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
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] |
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] |
64040 | V. M. Arbour and P. J. Currie. 2016. Systematics, phylogeny and palaeobiogeography of the ankylosaurid dinosaurs. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 14(5):385-444 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd/M. Carrano] | |
36419 | ETE | B. P. Kear. 2003. Cretaceous marine reptiles of Australia: a review of taxonomy and distribution. Cretaceous Research 24(3):277-303 [M. Carrano/H. Street] |
66052 | L. G. Leahey, R. E. Molnar, K. Carpenter, L. M. Witmer, and S. W. Salisbury. 2015. Cranial osteology of the ankylosaurian dinosaur formerly known as Minmi sp. (Ornithischia: Thyreophora) from the Lower Cretaceous Allaru Mudstone of Richmond, Queensland, Australia. PeerJ 3:e1475:1-47 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd/M. Carrano] | |
12524 | ETE | R. E. Molnar. 1996. Preliminary report on a new ankylosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Queensland, Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 39(3):653-668 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
17995 | ETE | R. E. Molnar. 2001. Armor of the small ankylosaur Minmi. In K. Carpenter (ed.), The Armored Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 341-362 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
13824 | ETE | R. E. Molnar and H. T. Clifford. 2000. Gut contents of a small ankylosaur. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20(1):194-196 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
18000 | ETE | R. E. Molnar and H. T. Clifford. 2001. An ankylosaurian cololite from the Lower Cretaceous of Queensland, Australia. In K. Carpenter (ed.), The Armored Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 399-412 [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] |
46676 | P. M. Sander. 2000. Ichthyosauria: their diversity, distribution and phylogeny. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 74(1/2):1-35 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant] | |
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] | |
34890 | M. Zammit, R. M. Norris, and B. P. Kear. 2010. The Australian Cretaceous ichthyosaur Platypterygius australis: A description and review of postcranial remains. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(6):1726-1735 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Mannion] |