McNamara's, Lightning Ridge (Cretaceous of Australia)

Also known as Three Mile, Three-Mile Field

Where: New South Wales, Australia (29.5° S, 148.0° E: paleocoordinates 59.3° S, 140.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Coptospora paradoxa pollen zone, Wallangulla Sandstone Member (Griman Creek Formation), Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• in the ‘Finch clay facies’, interspersed within the Wallangulla Sandstone Member of the Griman Creek Formation. Early-middle or middle-late Albian based on pollen

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by E. Smith in 1986

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: R. E. Molnar. 1996. Observations on the Australian ornithopod dinosaur, Muttaburrasaurus. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 39(3):639-652 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 204929: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.09.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
? Fostoria sp. Bell et al. 2019 ornithopod
AM F119282 (QMF 14421, a cast), maxillary tooth; AM F119236 (QMF 14420, a cast), right dentary tooth