San Remo (Cretaceous of Australia)

Also known as San Remo Back Beach

Where: Victoria, Australia (38.5° S, 145.4° E: paleocoordinates 76.4° S, 118.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Wonthaggi Formation (Strzelecki Group), Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)

• informal "Wonthaggi Formation" used to represent "upper Strzelecki Group"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. Ruffin, M. Cleeland, L. Kool in 1978-1979, 1988, 1991, 1996, 2002, 2008-2009

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

• NMV, Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Primary reference: T. F. Flannery and T. H. Rich. 1981. Dinosaur digging in Victoria. Australian Natural History 20(6):195-198 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127567: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 17.05.2012, edited by Richard Butler and Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Plesiosauria -
Plesiosauria indet.4
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.1
Theropoda indet.1 Marsh 1881 theropod
 Theropoda - Ornithomimidae
Ornithomimidae indet.4
Ornithomimidae indet.4 Marsh 1890 ornithomimid
 Theropoda - Noasauridae
Noasauridae indet.2
Noasauridae indet.2 Bonaparte and Powell 1980 ceratosaur
NMV P221202 (astragalocalcaneum)
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Chigutisauridae
Koolasuchus cleelandi5
Koolasuchus cleelandi5 Warren et al. 1997 tetrapod
NMV P186055, 186101, 186118, 186205, 186295, 197908
Osteichthyes
 Dipnoi -
Dipnoi indet.3
Dipnoi indet.3 lungfish
1Benson et al. 2012; 2Birch et al. 2020; 3Kool et al. 1998; 4Rich and Vickers-Rich 2020; 5Warren et al. 1997