Dinosaur Cove East: Early/Lower Albian, Australia
collected 1980-

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Dinosauria
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842
Rich et al. 1988
Reptilia
Neoceratopsia indet. Sereno 1986
Rich and Vickers-Rich 2003 1 specimen
"protoceratopsian"; NMV P186399
    = Ornithischia indet. Seeley 1888
Agnolin et al. 2010
Hypsilophodontidae informal indet. C Dollo 1882
Rich et al. 1988 3 specimens
femur type 1; NMV P185976, 185995, 185999
    = Ornithopoda indet. Marsh 1881
Agnolin et al. 2010
Fulgurotherium australe Huene 1932
Rich et al. 1988 3 specimens
NMV P177935, 185961, 186236
    = Iguanodontia indet. Baur 1891
Agnolin et al. 2010
Hypsilophodontidae informal indet. B Dollo 1882
Rich et al. 1988 3 specimens
NMV P166409, 157390, 182967a, 186466
    = Atlascopcosaurus loadsi n. gen., n. sp. Rich and Vickers-Rich 1989
Rich and Vickers-Rich 1989
Hypsilophodontidae informal indet. A Dollo 1882
Rich et al. 1988 5 specimens
    = Leaellynasaura amicagraphica Rich and Vickers-Rich 1989
Rich and Vickers-Rich 1989
Theropoda indet. (Marsh 1881)
Benson et al. 2012 1 specimen
NMV P185858 (distal caudal vertebra)
Tetanurae indet. Gauthier 1986
Benson et al. 2012 1 specimen
NMV P208234 (dorsal vertebra)
Oviraptorosauria indet. Barsbold 1976
Currie et al. 1996 2 specimens
NMV P186302, 186386
    = Dromaeosauridae indet. Colbert and Russell 1969
Agnolin et al. 2010
vertebra; surangular referred to Theropoda indet.
    = Maniraptora indet. Gauthier 1986
Benson et al. 2012
Timimus hermani n. gen., n. sp. Rich and Vickers-Rich 1994
Rich and Vickers-Rich 1994 2 specimens
NMV P186303, 186323 (2 measurements)
Reptilia - Pterosauria
Pterosauria indet. Kaup 1834
Rich et al. 1992
Reptilia
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788
Rich et al. 1988 6 specimens
    = Otwayemys cunicularius Gaffney et al. 1998
Gaffney et al. 1998
NMV P185883; NMV P186233 (left xiphiplastron); NMV P201020 (partial right hyoplastron and hypoplastron); NMV P186224 (fifth cervical vertebra); NMV P187261 (eighth cervical vertebra); NMV P197768 (anterior caudal vertebra)
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Victoria
Coordinates: 38.8° South, 143.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:74.0° South, 118.5° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Albian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 4
Key time interval:Early/Lower Albian
Age range of interval:113.00000 - 109.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Otway Formation:Eumeralla
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:"floodplain"
Geology comments: broad temperate river floodplain
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:many
Disassociated minor elements:many
Fragmentation:occasional
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection dates:1980-
Metadata
Database number:38534
Authorizer:M. Carrano, R. Benson Enterer:M. Carrano, R. Benson
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-04-23 11:42:47 Last modified:2023-01-20 15:57:40
Access level:the public Released:2004-04-23 11:42:47
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
63316. T. F. Flannery and T. H. Rich. 1981. Dinosaur digging in Victoria. Australian Natural History 20(6):195-198 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

32702ETE F. L. Agnolin, M. D. Ezcurra, D. F. Pais and S. W. Salisbury. 2010. A reappraisal of the Cretaceous non-avian dinosaur faunas from Australia and New Zealand: evidence for their Gondwanan affinities. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 8(2):257-300 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
41603 R. B. J. Benson, T. H. Rich, P. Vickers Rich and M. Hall. 2012. Theropod fauna from southern Australia indicates high polar diversity and climate-driven dinosaur provinciality. PLoS ONE 7(5):e37122 [R. Benson/R. Benson/O. Alfaro]
10343 P. J. Currie, P. Vickers-Rich, and T. H. Rich. 1996. Possible oviraptorosaur (Theropoda, Dinosauria) specimens from the Early Cretaceous Otway Group of Dinosaur Cove, Australia. Alcheringa 20:73-79 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
34458 T. L. Fletcher and S. W. Salisbury. 2010. New pterosaur fossils from the Early Cretaceous (Albian) of Queensland, Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(6):1747-1759 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
41668 E. S. Gaffney, L. Kool, D. B. Brinkman, T. H. Rich, and P. Vickers-Rich. 1998. Otwayemys, a new cryptodiran turtle from the Early Cretaceous of Australia. American Museum Novitates 3233:1-28 [R. Benson/R. Benson/P. Holroyd]
63257 L. Kool, N. A. Van Klaveren, T. H. Rich, D. Seegets-Villiers, K. Bacheller, A. Fraser, and L. Fletcher. 2000. Dinosaur Dreaming 2000 annual report. Dinosaur Dreaming: Flat Rocks Site Report, 2000 1-29 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
76422 S. F. Poropat. 2019. Final report. Winston Churchill Memorial Trust of Australia 1-56 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
19908ETE P. V. Rich, T. R. Rich, B. E. Wagstaff, J. M. Mason, C. B. Douthitt, R. T. Gregory, and E. A. Felton. 1988. Evidence for low temperatures and biologic diversity in Cretaceous high latitudes of Australia. Science 242(4884):1403-1406 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
10340 T. Rich and P. Vickers-Rich. 2003. Protoceratopsian? ulnae from Australia. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum Launceston 113:1-12 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
34284ETE T. H. Rich, P. V. Rich, B. E. Wagstaff, J. R. C. M. Mason, T. F. Flannery, M. Archer, R. E. Molnar and J. A. Long. 1992. Two possible chronological anomalies in the Early Cretaceous tetrapod assemblages of southeastern Australia. In N. J. Mateer & P.-J. Chen (ed.), Aspects of Nonmarine Cretaceous Geology. China Ocean Press, Beijing 165-176 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/O. Alfaro]
10342 T. H. Rich and P. Vickers-Rich. 1989. Polar dinosaurs and biotas of the Early Cretaceous of southeastern Australia. National Geographic Research 5(1):15-53 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
10341 T. H. Rich and P. Vickers-Rich. 1994. Neoceratopsians and ornithomimosaurs: dinosaurs of Gondwana origin?. National Geographic Research and Exploration 10(1):129-131 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
63248 T. H. Rich and P. Vickers-Rich. 1994. Dig at Dinosaur Cove 1993. Excavation Report: Dinosaur Cove 1993–1994 & Inverloch 1994 1-8 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
63249 T. H. Rich and P. Vickers-Rich. 1994. Digs at Dinosaur Cove and Flat Rocks 1994. Excavation Report: Dinosaur Cove 1993–1994 & Inverloch 1994 1-4 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
18059ETE T. H. Rich and P. Vickers-Rich. 2003. A Century of Australian Dinosaurs. Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery and Monash Science Centre, Monash University 1-124 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
83736 T. H. Rich and P. Vickers-Rich. 2020. Dinosaurs of Darkness (second edition) 1-310 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
62321 S. W. Salisbury, A. Romilio, M. C. Herne, R. T. Tucker, and J. P. Nair. 2016. The Dinosaurian Ichnofauna of the Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian–Barremian) Broome Sandstone of the Walmadany Area (James Price Point), Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 16. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(6, suppl.):1-152 [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]
61518 D. B. Weishampel and J. B. Weishampel. 1983. Annotated localities of ornithopod dinosaurs: implications to Mesozoic paleobiogeography. The Mosasaur 1:43-87 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]