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
Ammonoidea indet. Zittel 1884
Bartholomai and Molnar 1981
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
Bartholomai and Molnar 1981
Bivalvia
Pelecypoda indet. Goldfuss 1820
Bartholomai and Molnar 1981
synonym of Bivalvia
Reptilia
Ornithopoda indet. Marsh 1881
1 individual
"somewhat similar to...Iguanodon" (2 measurements)
    = Muttaburrasaurus langdoni n. gen., n. sp. Bartholomai and Molnar 1981
Bartholomai and Molnar 1981
QM F6140
Reptilia - Iguanodontidae
Iguanodontidae indet. Bonaparte 1850
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:

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]
16996ETE 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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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