Boulia region (Cretaceous of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (22.9° S, 139.9° E: paleocoordinates 53.7° S, 125.9° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Toolebuc Formation (Rolling Downs Group), Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• Toolebuc Formation (Rolling Downs Group), Eromanga Basin, latest middle to late Albian, P. ludbrookiae Zone/upper C. paradoxa–P. pannosus Zone

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: SAM collection (South Australian Museum, Adelaide, Australia)

Primary reference: B. P. Kear and M. S. Lee. 2006. A primitive protostegid from Australia and early sea turtle evolution. Biology Letters 2:116-119 [R. Benson/R. Benson/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 129288: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 23.06.2012, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Protostegidae
Bouliachelys suteri Kear and Lee 2006 sea turtle
SAM P41106, skull
 Ornithischia -
Ornithopoda indet. Marsh 1881 ornithopod
BMNH