Holden's Field, Lightning Ridge (Cretaceous of Australia)

Also known as Four Mile, Three Mile

Where: New South Wales, Australia (29.5° S, 148.0° E: paleocoordinates 59.3° S, 140.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Coptospora paradoxa pollen zone, Wallangulla Sandstone Member (Griman Creek Formation), Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• in the ‘Finch clay facies’, interspersed within the Wallangulla Sandstone Member of the Griman Creek Formation. Early-middle or middle-late Albian based on pollen

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; gray, yellow claystone

• "grey to buff, montmorillonite-rich clays and siltstones"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: E. T. Smith. 2010. Early Cretaceous chelids from Lightning Ridge, New South Wales. Alcheringa 34:375-384 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 99240: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 03.11.2010, edited by Nicholas Visalden and Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Ornithopoda indet.4 Marsh 1881 ornithopod
LRF 759, neonate femur
Weewarrasaurus pobeni1 Bell et al. 2018 ornithopod
LRF 766, partial R dentary
 Pterosauria -
Anhangueria indet.2 Rodrigues and Kellner 2013 pterosaur
 Loricata -
Isisfordia cf. selaslophensis3 Etheridge 1917 crocodilian
LRF 750.A-F and 751.A-G
 Testudines - Chelidae
? Chelidae indet. Gray 1825 sideneck turtle
LRF 733