Triangle Paddock, Elderslie Station (QM L313): Cenomanian, Australia
collected by K. Watts 1974
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Equisetopsida
- Araucariaceae
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Araucariaceae indet.
Henckel and Hochstetter 1865
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Hocknull et al. 2009 | |||||||||
| "araucarian" | ||||||||||
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Osteichthyes
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Osteichthyes indet.
Huxley 1880
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Hocknull et al. 2009 | |||||||||
| "fragmentary remains of fish" | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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Theropoda indet.
(Marsh 1881)
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Hocknull et al. 2009 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| tooth | ||||||||||
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Austrosaurus sp.
Longman 1933
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1 individual | |||||||||
| QM F7292 (7 measurements) | ||||||||||
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= Titanosauriformes indet.
Salgado et al. 1997
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Molnar 2001 | |||||||||
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= Titanosauria indet.
Bonaparte and Coria 1993
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Molnar and Salisbury 2005 | |||||||||
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= Wintonotitan wattsi n. gen., n. sp.
Hocknull et al. 2009
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Hocknull et al. 2009 | |||||||||
| QM F7292 - holotype (fragmentary dorsal vertebral centrum and three neural arches; fragments of dorsal ribs; two fragmentary coossified sacral vertebrae; 25 caudal vertebrae; five chevrons; incomplete left scapula; incomplete left and right humeri; fragmentary left and right ulnae; complete left and partial right radii; left metacarpus comprising the proximal end of metacarpal I and complete metacarpals II–V; partial left ilium; left ischium; associated bone fragments) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Queensland |
| Coordinates: | 22.3° South, 142.5° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 52.0° South, 132.3° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Altitude: | 169 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Cenomanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 5 |
| Key time interval: | Cenomanian | Pollen zone: | Phimopollenites pannosus |
| Age range of interval: | 100.50000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Rolling Downs | Formation: | Winton | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 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) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "cross stratification",coarse,ferruginous,yellow carbonaceous sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "coarsely bedded sandstone overlying fine-grained clay" "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" | |
| Environment: | channel lag |
| Geology comments: "higher-energy deposit...point-bar sequence" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Associated major elements: | many |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | some |
| Size sorting: | medium |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Collectors: | K. Watts | Collection dates: | 1974 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Top Horse Bore, Winton | ||
| Database number: | 60799 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-05-23 10:43:02 | Last modified: | 2020-01-03 12:23:43 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-05-23 10:43:02 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 17490. | ETE | 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] |
Secondary references:
| 30242 | ETE | S. A. Hocknull, M. A. White, T. R. Tischler, A. G. Cook, N. D. Calleja, T. Sloan, and D. A. Elliot. 2009. New mid-Cretaceous (latest Albian) dinosaurs from Winton, Queensland, Australia. PLoS ONE 4(7):e6190: 1-51 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 82629 | R. E. Molnar. 2001. A reassessment of the phylogenetic position of Cretaceous sauropod dinosaurs from Queensland, Australia. VII International Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems. Asociación Paleontológica Argentina Publicación Especial 7:139-144 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 71375 | R. E. Molnar. 2010. Taphonomic observations on eastern Australian Cretaceous sauropods. Alcheringa 34(3):421-429 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 19582 | ETE | R. E. Molnar and S. W. Salisbury. 2005. Observations on Cretaceous sauropods from Australia. In K. Carpenter and V. Tidwell (eds.), Thunder-Lizards: The Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 454-465 [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] | |
| 53484 | S. F. Poropat, P. D. Mannion, P. Upchurch, S. A. Hocknull, B. P. Kear and D. A. Elliott. 2015. Reassessment of the non-titanosaurian somphospondylan Wintonotitan wattsi (Dinosauria: Sauropoda: Titanosauriformes) from the mid-Cretaceous Winton Formation, Queensland, Australia. Papers in Palaeontology 1(1):59-106 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
| 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] |