Galah Creek, Hughenden (Cretaceous of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (20.8° S, 144.2° E: paleocoordinates 52.1° S, 132.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• "latest mid to Upper Albian P. ludbrookiae Zone/upper C. paradoxa-P. pannosus Zone ([Moore et al., 1986]; [McMinn and Burger, 1986])"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. P. Kear. 2005. Cranial morphology of Platypterygius longmani Wade, 1990 (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) from the Lower Cretaceous of Australia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 145:583-622 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 119010: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 20.10.2011

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ichthyosauria - Ophthalmosauridae
"Platypterygius longmani" = Platypterygius australis
"Platypterygius longmani" = Platypterygius australis McCoy 1867 ichthyosaur
QM F551 (articulated skull) (paratype)