Also known as Slippery Rocks
Where: Victoria, Australia (36.7° S, 143.4° E: paleocoordinates 72.0° S, 120.5° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Crybelosporites striatus pollen zone, Eumeralla Formation (Otway Group), Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)
• stratigraphically below Dinosaur Cove East
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; lithified sandstone and lithified, conglomeratic mudstone
•as a result of the onset of rifting between Australia and Antarctica. Specific site interpreted as stream avulsion.
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by Rich & Vickers-Rich in 1985–1994
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: P. V. Rich, T. R. Rich, B. E. Wagstaff, J. M. Mason, C. B. Douthitt, R. T. Gregory, and E. A. Felton. 1988. Evidence for low temperatures and biologic diversity in Cretaceous high latitudes of Australia. Science 242(4884):1403-1406 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 38542: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.04.2004, edited by Mark Uhen, Roger Benson and Hallie Street
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Dinosauria indet. dinosaur | |
Ornithopoda indet.5, Ornithopoda indet.1, Iguanodontia indet.1, Atlascopcosaurus loadsi9, Leaellynasaura amicagraphica n. gen. n. sp.9
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? Pterosauria indet. pterosaur | |
Plesiosauria "smaller taxon"2 plesiosaur 13 teeth (NMV P177934, P185855, P185986, P186030, P186031, P186032, P186131, P186133, P186411, P186416, P202607, P202613, P208102)
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Otwayemys cunicularius n. gen. n. sp.4
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Mammalia | |
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Kryoryctes cadburyi n. gen. n. sp.8
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Osteichthyes | |
Ceratodontidae indet. Gill 1872 lungfish | |
Pisces | |
"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes
"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes Huxley 1880 bony fish |