North-east Paddock, Warra Station (Cretaceous of Australia)

Also known as Hamilton River

Where: Queensland, Australia (23.1° S, 140.6° E: paleocoordinates 54.0° S, 126.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• "marine"
• "a limestone flag"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: chemical, acetic,

• specimens were "recovered by acetic acid solution of the limestone"

•Queensland Museum collection

Primary reference: R. E. Molnar. 1986. An enantiornithine bird from the Lower Cretaceous of Queensland, Australia. Nature 322:736-738 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85237: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 06.12.2008, edited by Philip Mannion, Jonathan Tennant and Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• associated with "plentiful small teleost remains as well as remains of other fish, turtles, ichthyosaurs and a pterosaur" apparently described by Molnar and Thulborn 1980
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Mammalia
 Mammalia -
Mammalia indet.2
Mammalia indet.2 mammal
Undescribed vertebra
Aves
 Enantiornithes -
Enantiornithes indet.2
Enantiornithes indet.2 bird
QM F12991
 Alexornithiformes - Alexornithidae
Nanantius eos n. gen. n. sp.
Nanantius eos n. gen. n. sp. Molnar 1986 bird
Single tibiotarsus
Reptilia
 Ichthyosauria - Ophthalmosauridae
Platypterygius australis3
Platypterygius australis3 McCoy 1867 ichthyosaur
QM F40821 (right ischiopubis and possible clavicle element) and SAMP44323 (unprepared material, including skull, anterior vertebrae, pectoral girdle elements, forelimb elements)
Chondrichthyes
 Chimaeriformes - Callorhynchidae
Ptyktoptychion tayyo n. gen. n. sp.1
Ptyktoptychion tayyo n. gen. n. sp.1 Lees 1986 plownose chimaera
1Bartholomai 2008; 2Kurochkin and Molnar 1997; 3Zammit et al. 2010