Marathon Station, Flinders River (Cretaceous of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (20.9° S, 143.6° E: paleocoordinates 54.6° S, 130.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Rolling Downs Group, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. W. de Vis, G. Sweet in 1880s?

Primary reference: R. L. Jack and R., J.r. Etheridge. 1892. The Geology and Palaeontology of Queensland and New Guinea. Publications of the Geological Survey of Queensland 92:1-768 [G. Webster/G. Webster/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 222683: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.10.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Beudanticeratidae
"Ammonites sutherlandi" = Beudanticeras sutherlandi
"Ammonites sutherlandi" = Beudanticeras sutherlandi Etheridge 1872 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
"Inoceramus pernoides" = Parainoceramya pernoides Goldfuss 1835 clam
Inoceramus carsoni McCoy 1865 clam
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
"Aucella hughendenensis" = Buchia
"Aucella hughendenensis" = Buchia scallop
Reptilia
 Ichthyosauria - Ophthalmosauridae
Ichthyosaurus marathonensis n. sp. Etheridge 1888 ichthyosaur
QM
 Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Plesiosaurus sutherlandi McCoy 1867 elasmosaur