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
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
Molnar and Clifford 2000
seeds, stems, and sporangia
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814
Molnar 1996
Cephalopoda - Ammonoidea
Ammonoidea indet. Zittel 1884
Molnar 1996
Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Elasmosauridae indet. Cope 1869
Kear 2003 2 specimens
exact locality unkown, but reliably from upper Flinders River region
Reptilia - Ophthalmosauridae
Platypterygius australis (McCoy 1867)
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
Minmi sp. Molnar 1980
1 individual
QM F18101
    = Kunbarrasaurus ieversi n. gen., n. sp. Leahey et al. 2015
Leahey et al. 2015
Chondrichthyes - Echinorhiniformes - Echinorhinidae
Echinorhinus sp.
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:

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]
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]
36419ETE 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]
12524ETE 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]
17995ETE 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]
13824ETE 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]
18000ETE 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]
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]
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]