Skenes Creek tracksite (Cretaceous to of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (38.7° S, 143.7° E: paleocoordinates 76.1° S, 112.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Eumeralla Formation (Otway Group), Late/Upper Aptian to Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 109.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, fine sandstone

• "very fine-fine, well-sorted lithic arenite. The bed is 25-41 mm thick, with seven parallel and symmetrical ripples sharing the top surface with the track...Bedding in the track and its platform is mostly planar and laminated, although slight variations in surface topography synch with underlying ripples."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, trace

Collected by H. Tracksdorf, M. CLeeland in 1989, 2013–2014

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• discovered by "Helmut Tracksdorf, a local citizen and geologist from the Skenes Creek area"

Primary reference: L. Kool, N. A. Van Klaveren, D. Seegets-Villiers and T. H. Rich. 1999. Dinosaur Dreaming 1999 annual report. Dinosaur Dreaming: Flat Rocks Site Report, 1999 1-18 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 188584: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 08.09.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
? Ornithopoda indet.1, Ornithopoda indet.2
? Ornithopoda indet.1 Marsh 1881 ornithopod
Skenes Creek Track 2 (NMV P208232)
Ornithopoda indet.2 Marsh 1881 ornithopod
Skenes Creek Track 1 (NMV P208232)
1Martin 2016; 2Salisbury et al. 2016