Southern Plevna Downs Station, EML011(a) (Cretaceous to of Australia)

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

•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

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Australotitan cooperensis n. gen. n. sp. Hocknull et al. 2021 sauropod
EML011 - holotype