Rosebery Downs, Muttaburra: Late/Upper Albian, Australia
collected by Langdon 1963
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda
- Ammonoidea
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Ammonoidea indet.
Zittel 1884
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Bartholomai and Molnar 1981 | |||||||||
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Cuvier 1795
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Bartholomai and Molnar 1981 | |||||||||
Bivalvia
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Pelecypoda indet.
Goldfuss 1820
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Bartholomai and Molnar 1981 | |||||||||
synonym of Bivalvia | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Ornithopoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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1 individual | |||||||||
"somewhat similar to...Iguanodon" (2 measurements) | ||||||||||
= Muttaburrasaurus langdoni n. gen., n. sp.
Bartholomai and Molnar 1981
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Bartholomai and Molnar 1981 | |||||||||
QM F6140 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Iguanodontidae
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Iguanodontidae indet.
Bonaparte 1850
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Hill et al. 1968 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
QM F6095, pedal phalanx | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Australia | State/province: | Queensland |
Coordinates: | 22.7° South, 144.6° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 54.0° South, 133.3° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
Altitude: | 211 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: | Mackunda | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Manuka Subgroup; Tambo Faunal Division; upper part of formation |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | concretionary calcareous mudstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: fossils weathered out of a calcareous mudstone concretion | |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Associated major elements: | many |
Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,acetic,field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Collectors: | Langdon | Collection dates: | 1963 |
Metadata
Database number: | 59338 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2006-03-27 06:53:23 | Last modified: | 2022-01-13 15:49:42 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-03-27 06:53:23 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
46357. | A. Bartholomai. 1966. Fossil footprints in Queensland. Australian Natural History 15:147-150 [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] |
16996 | ETE | A. Bartholomai and R. E. Molnar. 1981. Muttaburrasaurus, a new iguanodontid (Ornithischia: Ornithopoda) dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 20(2):319-349 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
50540 | K. Carpenter and Y. Ishida. 2010. Early and "middle" Cretaceous iguanodonts in time and space. Journal of Iberian Geology 36(2):145-164 [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] | |
54259 | D. Hill, G. Playford, and J. T. Woods. 1968. Cretaceous fossils of Queensland. In D. Hill, G. Playford, & J. T. Woods (eds.), Cretaceous Fossils of Queensland k.1-k.35 [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] | |
46279 | R. E. H. Molnar. 1982. A catalogue of fossil amphibians and reptiles in Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 20(3):613-633 [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] | |
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] | |
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] |