Minmi crossing, Roma: Valanginian - Barremian, Australia
collected by Bartholomai 1964
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Ankylosauridae
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Ankylosauria indet.
Osborn 1923
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1 individual | |||||||||
| QM F10329 | ||||||||||
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= Minmi paravertebrata n. gen., n. sp.
Molnar 1980
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Molnar 1980 | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Queensland |
| Coordinates: | 26.4° South, 148.8° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 71.0° South, 122.9° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Altitude: | 324 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Key time interval: | Valanginian - Barremian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 139.80000 - 121.40000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Blythesdale | Formation: | Bungil | Member: | Minmi |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | concretionary argillaceous,calcareous "siliciclastic" |
| Lithology description: "This member consists of medium to fine sands, silts, and muds, with calcareous concretions"; matrix is argillaceous and varies in texture | |
| Environment: | lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal |
| Geology comments: "nearshore marine or coastal lagoonal deposit" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,concretion |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Articulated whole bodies: | all |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
| Bioerosion: | occasional |
| Feeding/predation traces: | tooth marks |
| Spatial resolution: | allochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | Bartholomai | Collection dates: | 1964 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Mack Gully, Winton | ||
| Database number: | 60758 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-05-22 11:43:23 | Last modified: | 2022-01-13 15:40:34 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-05-22 11:43:23 |
| 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] |
| 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] | |
| 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] | |
| 17467 | ETE | R. E. Molnar. 1980. Reflections on the Mesozoic of Australia. Mesozoic Vertebrate Life 1:47-60 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 17468 | R. E. Molnar. 1980. An ankylosaur (Ornithischia, Reptilia) from the Lower Cretaceous of southern Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 20(1):77-87 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 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] | |
| 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] | |
| 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] |