Molecap Quarry, Gingin: Cenomanian - Early/Lower Turonian, Australia
collected by M. Green, K. C. C. Tiller 1965, 1992
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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? Ornithocheiridae indet.
(Seeley 1870)
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Kear et al. 2010 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| WAM 68.5.11, jaw fragment | ||||||||||
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? Carnosauria indet.
Huene 1920
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| WAM 92.7.1, pedal phalanx | ||||||||||
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= cf. Allosaurus sp.
Marsh 1877
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Scanlon 2006 | |||||||||
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= Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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Carrano et al. 2012 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Western Australia |
| Coordinates: | 31.3° South, 115.9° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 55.0° South, 90.4° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Altitude: | 192 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Key time interval: | Cenomanian - Early/Lower Turonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 100.50000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Molecap Greensand | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "Age determinations based on terrestrial palynomorphs(pollen) and planktic microfossils(dinocysts) indicate an unusual mixed assemblage of Cenomanian through to Coniacian index taxa; possibly the result of slumping associated with the Yallalie impact structure (a buried Late Cretaceous impact crater 110 km to the north)" (Kear et al. 2010) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | glauconitic,nodular,phosphatic sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "10 – 12 m of laminar greensand and glauconitic sandstone with thin beds of phosphatic nodules (ca 600 mm thick) accumulated towards the upper and lowermost parts of the sequence" | |
| Environment: | offshore |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | M. Green, K. C. C. Tiller | Collection dates: | 1965, 1992 |
| Collection method comments: Theropod specimen found by Michael Green, a student of the University of Western Australia Geology Department; pterosaur found by K. C. C. Tiller in 1965
WAM: Western Australian Museum, Perth | |||
Metadata
| Also known as: | Gin Gin | ||
| Database number: | 55314 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano, R. Butler | Enterer: | K. Maguire, R. Butler, M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-10-07 10:50:21 | Last modified: | 2022-01-13 15:30:20 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-10-07 10:50:21 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 14799. | ETE | J. A. Long. 1995. A theropod dinosaur bone from the Late Cretaceous Molecap Greensand, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 17:143-146 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/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] |
| 41617 | M. T. Carrano, R. B. J. Benson, and S. D. Sampson. 2012. The phylogeny of Tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10(2):211-300 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 33006 | B. P. Kear, G. L. Deacon, and M. Siverson. 2010. Remains of a Late Cretaceous pterosaur from the Molecap Greensand of Western Australia. Alcheringa 34(3):273-279 [R. Butler/R. Butler/S. Bruning] | |
| 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] |
| 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] |