Free Fossil Hunting Site 1 (Cretaceous of Australia)

Also known as 8 mile pits, water pond

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

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Toolebuc Formation (Rolling Downs Group), Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by L. Shaw in 2011

Collection methods: mechanical,

• specimen housed at Kronosaurus Korner Regional Museum

Primary reference: T. M. Richards, P. E. Stumkat, and S. W. Salisbury. 2021. A new species of crested pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea, Anhangueridae) from the Lower Cretaceous (upper Albian) of Richmond, north west Queensland, Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 41(3):e1946068more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 236854: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 31.10.2024

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pterosauria - Anhangueridae
Thapunngaka shawi n. gen. n. sp.
Thapunngaka shawi n. gen. n. sp. Richards et al. 2021 pterosaur
KKF494