Cardabia Station (Cretaceous to of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (23.2° S, 114.0° E: paleocoordinates 49.5° S, 72.6° E)

When: Birdrong Sandstone Formation (Barrow Group), Late/Upper Hauterivian to Late/Upper Hauterivian (136.4 - 125.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: B. Choo. 1999. Cretaceous ichthyosaurs from Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 57:207-218 [V. Fischer/V. Fischer]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 169140: authorized by Valentin Fischer, entered by Valentin Fischer on 08.05.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ichthyosauria -
Ichthyosauria indet.
Ichthyosauria indet. de Blainville 1835 ichthyosaur
WAM 94.7.7, three associated centra
 Ichthyosauria - Ophthalmosauridae
Platypterygius sp.
Platypterygius sp. von Huene 1922 ichthyosaur
WAM 94.7.2, a fragmentary jugal associated with fragmentary nasal, vertebrae and ribs; WAM 94.7.3, a fragmentary humerus and associated ventra