Near Dandaragan: Cenomanian - Turonian, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
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Plesiosauria indet.
de Blainville 1835
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3 specimens | |||||||||
| UWA 22037 caudal vertebra; UWA 22041 tooth; UWA 22038 rib | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
- Elasmosauridae
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Elasmosauridae indet.
Cope 1869
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3 specimens | |||||||||
| WAM 86.5.1 dorsal vertebra; UWA 22034, 22036 cervical vertebrae | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Mosasauridae
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Plioplatecarpinae indet.
(Dollo 1884)
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Kear et al. 2005 | |||||||||
| Series of ten trunk/caudal vertebrae with articulating haemal arches (WAM 98.7.1-10) | ||||||||||
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= cf. Platecarpus sp.
Cope 1869
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Scanlon 2006 | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Western Australia |
| Coordinates: | 30.7° South, 115.7° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 54.3° South, 90.7° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Key time interval: | Cenomanian - Turonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 100.50000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Molecap Greensand |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Abundance in sediment: | rare |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Collection method comments: WAM 86.5.1 found by I. Davies in 1986 | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 110535 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion | Enterer: | H. Street, J. Tennant, M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | H. Street | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-06-10 06:19:38 | Last modified: | 2011-06-09 16:23:58 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-06-10 06:19:38 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 36377. | ETE | J. A. Long and A. R. I. Cruickshank. 1998. Further records of plesiosaurian reptiles of Jurassic and Cretaceous age from Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 19:47-55 [M. Carrano/H. Street] |
Secondary references:
| 46317 | B. P. Kear, J. A. Long, and J. E. Martin. 2005. A review of Australian mosasaur occurences. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences — Geologie en Mijnbouw 84(3):307-313 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant] | |
| 79070 | J. D. Scanlon. 2006. Dinosaurs and other Mesozoic reptiles of Australasia. In J. R. Merrick, M. Archer, G. M. Hickey, & M. S. Y. Lee (eds.), Evolution and Biogeography of Australasian Vertebrates 265-290 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |