Elliot Site (QM L1333/AODL 001) (Cretaceous to of Australia)

Also known as Elliot/Mary sector, D31, Belmont, Winton; AODL 127

Where: Queensland, Australia (22.3° S, 143.1° E: paleocoordinates 51.6° S, 134.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Phimopollenites pannosus pollen zone, Winton Formation (Rolling Downs Group), Late/Upper Cenomanian to Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 89.3 Ma)

• pollen zone inferred from nearby localities

•Tucker et al. 2013 and Tucker et al. 2016 detrital zircon analysis suggest a maximum depositional age of 94–92Ma for the Winton Formation. The underlying upper Mackunda Formation had a maximum depositional age of 104–102Ma, suggesting that the base of the Winton Formation could be no older than Latest Albian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fine channel fill; argillaceous sandstone and siltstone

• "interpreted to be part of either a point bar deposit or an abandoned channel fill deposit associated with an ox-bow lake"
• "a thin, laterally continuous bed of fluvial siltstone"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by D. Elliot & S. Salisbury in 1999-2004

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), sieve,

• includes work under the "Elliot Expeditions" of the "Winton Dinosaur Project"

Primary reference: S. W. Salisbury. 2002. A giant awakes. Australian Geographic 65:100-105 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 62553: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.07.2006, edited by Matthew Oreska and Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Osteichthyes -
Osteichthyes indet.1 Huxley 1880 bony fish
 Therapsida -
Cynodontia indet.1 cynodont
"a likely non-mammalian cynodont"
Reptilia
 Testudines -
Testudines indet.1 Batsch 1788 turtle
 Squamata - Dolichosauridae
Dolichosauridae indet.1 squamates
vertebra
 Loricata -
Crocodyliformes indet.2 Hay 1930 crocodilian
 Ornithischia -
Ankylosauria indet.1 Osborn 1923 ankylosaur
QM F44324–44326
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.4 Marsh 1881 theropod
teeth fragments
 Saurischia -
Titanosauriformes indet.1 Salgado et al. 1997 sauropod
Diamantinasaurus matildae3 Hocknull et al. 2009 sauropod
"Elliot"; AODF 836
 Pterosauria -
Anhangueria indet.2 Rodrigues and Kellner 2013 pterosaur
AODF 2297
 Plesiosauria -