Also known as Haliskia peterseni type locality

Where: Queensland, Australia (20.6° S, 143.1° E: paleocoordinates 52.3° S, 130.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pseudoceratium ludbrookiae and Phimopollenites pannosus pollen zone, Toolebuc Formation, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• Toolebuc Formation, (middle–upper uppermost Albian, corresponding to the Pseudoceratium ludbrookiae and Phimopollenites pannosus spore/pollen biostratigraphic zones).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal lime mudstone and siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

• Haliskia peterseni holotype:anterior portion of skull including partial premaxillary crest; complete mandible; both ceratobranchials; one cervical vertebra, one dorsal vertebra; twelve dorsal ribs; two gastralia; lef scapulocoracoid; right syncarpus; both lateral carpals; partial right pteroid; right metacarpals I–III; non-fight digit manual phalanges and unguals; lef and right metacarpal IV; lef and right manual phalanges IV-1; partial right manual phalanx IV-2; partial right manual phalanx IV-3; partial lef manual phalanx IV-4; 43 teeth; lef femur; lef tibia; two metatarsals; seven pedal phalanges; and associated fragments.

Collected by K. Petersen in 2021

Collection methods: bulk, core, quarrying,

• KKF, Kronosaurus Korner Fossil

Primary reference: A. H. Pentland, S. F. Poropat, R. J. Duncan, A. W. A. Kellner, R. A. M. Bantim, J. J. Bevitt, A. M. Tait and K. Grice. 2024. Haliskia peterseni, a new anhanguerian pterosaur from the late Early Cretaceous of Australia. Scientific Reports 14(11789):1-22 [E. Vlachos/F. Aspromonte]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 235290: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Franco Aspromonte on 25.06.2024

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