Also known as Mythunga camara and Platypterygius longmani types

Where: Queensland, Australia (20.9° S, 143.8° E: paleocoordinates 52.6° S, 131.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

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

• "Age determinations for the Toolebuc Formation based on dinoflagellates and miospores indicate a latest middle to late Albian range: Pseudoceratium ludbrookiae dinoflagellate Zone and Coptospora paradoxa spore-pollen Zone"

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; carbonate

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collected by P. Gilmore in 1991

• QM: Queensland Museum; Holotype of Platypterygius longmani found prior to 1990. Mythunga found by Phillip Gilmore.

Primary reference: M. Wade. 1990. A review of the Australian Cretaceous longipinnate ichthyosaur Platypterygius, (Ichthyosauria, Ichthyopterygia). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 28(1):115-137 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 89950: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 22.06.2009, edited by Hallie Street

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