Also known as Eromanga
Where: Queensland, Australia (26.7° S, 142.6° E: paleocoordinates 56.1° S, 133.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Winton Formation (Rolling Downs Group), Middle Cenomanian to Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 89.3 Ma)
• 270–300 m from the base of the Winton Formation
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•96-93 Ma based on detrital zircon samples from nearby localities
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: concretion
Collected by Queensland Museum & Eromanga Natural History Museum in 2005 onwards
Primary reference: S. A. Hocknull, M. Wilkinson, R. A. Lawrence, V. Konstantinov, S. Mackenzie and R. Mackenzie. 2021. A new giant sauropod, Australotitan cooperensis gen. et sp. nov., from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia. PeerJ 9:e11317:1-130 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 220528: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 07.06.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Australotitan cooperensis n. gen. n. sp.
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