Snake Creek Tracksite, Karoola (Cretaceous of Australia)

Also known as AODL 251

Where: Queensland, Australia (22.1° S, 142.5° E: paleocoordinates 51.8° S, 132.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Winton Formation (Rolling Downs Group), Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• upper part of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; concretionary, brown, gray siltstone and sandstone

• "a tan–grey siltstone layer...Immediately beneath the tracked surface, the succession comprises three thick sandstone layers interspersed with two thin siltstone layers"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, trace

Collected in 2018–2020

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: S. F. Poropat, M. A. White, T. Ziegler, A. H. Pentland, S. L. Rigby, R. J. Duncan, T. Sloan and D. A. Elliot. 2021. A diverse Late Cretaceous vertebrate tracksite from the Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia. PeerJ 9:e11544:1-87 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 225328: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 03.05.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Osteichthyes
 Actinopterygii -
Actinopterygii indet.
Actinopterygii indet. Cope 1887 ray-finned fish
feeding trace
 Dipnoi -
Dipnoi indet.
Dipnoi indet. lungfish
feeding traces
Reptilia
 Testudinata -
Testudinata indet.
Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811 turtle
"Various isolated tracks, some of which might form a trackway"
 Crocodylia -
Hatcherichnus sp.
Hatcherichnus sp. Foster and Lockley 1997 crocodilian
AODF 904.C1, C2, C3, C4, C5
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
single track within AODF 904.S1.23
 Ornithischia -
"Wintonopus latomorum" = Wintonopus latomorum, "Skartopus australis" = Wintonopus latomorum
"Wintonopus latomorum" = Wintonopus latomorum Thulborn and Wade 1984 ornithopod
AODF 904.O1, O2
"Skartopus australis" = Wintonopus latomorum Thulborn and Wade 1984 ornithopod
AODF 904.T1
 Saurischia -
Titanosauria indet.
Titanosauria indet. Bonaparte and Coria 1993 sauropod
AODF 904.S1, S2, S3, S4