Eurombah Creek, Durham Downs (Jurassic of Australia)

Also known as Taloona Station, Roma

Where: Queensland, Australia (26.1° S, 149.1° E: paleocoordinates 67.0° S, 93.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Walloon Coal Measures Formation (Injune Creek Group), Early/Lower Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• U-Pb detrital zircon maximum depositional age determined is 162.6 ± 1.1 Ma, no older than early Oxfordian, demonstrating that the fossils are younger than expected, and definitely recovered from the Walloon Coal Measures (Todd et al. 2019)

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•originally referred to the Walloon Coal Measures and "Injune Creek Beds", later to Hutton Sandstone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; lithified, fine-grained, ferruginous, calcareous sandstone and concretionary, argillaceous ironstone

• "fresh-water deposits", also described as an "intracratonic flood plain"
• "the matrix consisted mainly of clay-ironstone, but there was also a closely-investing, fine-grained, calcareous sandstone which acted as a natural cement." Clay is oxidized and concretionary, sandstone is ferruginous.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Browne in 1924-1926

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: H. A. Longman. 1926. A giant dinosaur from Durham Downs, Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8(3):183-194 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 39235: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.05.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Rhoetosaurus brownei n. gen. n. sp.
Rhoetosaurus brownei n. gen. n. sp. Longman 1926 sauropod
QM F1695