Boulia region: Late/Upper Albian, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Ornithopoda indet.
(Marsh 1881)
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Poropat 2019 | |||||||||
| BMNH | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Protostegidae
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Bouliachelys suteri
Kear and Lee 2006
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| SAM P41106, skull | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Queensland |
| Coordinates: | 22.9° South, 139.9° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 53.7° South, 125.9° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Albian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 4 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Albian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 106.20000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Rolling Downs | Formation: | Toolebuc | ||
| Stratigraphy comments: Toolebuc Formation (Rolling Downs Group), Eromanga Basin, latest middle to late Albian, P. ludbrookiae Zone/upper C. paradoxa–P. pannosus Zone | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: SAM collection (South Australian Museum, Adelaide, Australia) | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 129288 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Benson, M. Carrano | Enterer: | R. Benson, M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-06-23 02:02:52 | Last modified: | 2022-01-13 15:42:47 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-06-23 02:02:52 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 42112. | B. P. Kear and M. S. Lee. 2006. A primitive protostegid from Australia and early sea turtle evolution. Biology Letters 2:116-119 [R. Benson/R. Benson/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 76422 | S. F. Poropat. 2019. Final report. Winston Churchill Memorial Trust of Australia 1-56 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 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] |