Also known as Top Horse Bore, Winton
Where: Queensland, Australia (22.3° S, 142.5° E: paleocoordinates 52.0° S, 132.3° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Phimopollenites pannosus pollen zone, Winton Formation (Rolling Downs Group), Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)
• Although previously listed as Albian (e.g. Hocknull et al. 2009), the site is now regarded as Cenomanian (Bryan et al. 2012), as it lies to the west of the Cork Fault (Vine and Jauncey 1964) (see Poropat et al. 2014)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: channel lag; coarse-grained, ferruginous, yellow, carbonaceous sandstone and claystone
•"The vertebrae are coated with a light, buff, fine-grained, arenaceous iron-bearing sediment. The internal cavities are all filled with black or orange-brown ironstone. Plant material, twigs and pieces of branches, were embedded in the coating, leaving impressions"
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by K. Watts in 1974
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: W. P. Coombs, Jr. and R. E. Molnar. 1981. Sauropoda (Reptilia, Saurischia) from the Cretaceous of Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 20(2):351-373 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 60799: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Gnathostomata | |
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Reptilia | |
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Wintonotitan wattsi n. gen. n. sp.
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