Also known as Murchison House Station

Where: Western Australia, Australia (27.7° S, 114.2° E: paleocoordinates 52.6° S, 68.4° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Muderongia australis other zone, Birdrong Sandstone Formation (Barrow Group), Hauterivian to Hauterivian (132.9 - 125.0 Ma)

• Upper meter of the Birdrong Sandstone, Early Cretaceous. Possibly in the overlying Windalia Sandstone Member of the Murderong Shale

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; glauconitic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Long in 1992-1994, 1996

Collection methods: surface (float), mechanical,

• Fossil wood associated with the pliosaurs contains fossil pholadid bivalve borings and hyphae of saprophytic fungi

Primary reference: J. A. Long and A. R. I. Cruickshank. 1996. First record of an Early Cretaceous theropod dinosaur bone from Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 18:219-222 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55309: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 07.10.2005, edited by Hallie Street and Matthew Carrano

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