Elliot Site (QM L1333/AODL 001): Late/Upper Cenomanian - Early/Lower Turonian, Australia
collected by D. Elliot & S. Salisbury 1999-2004
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Osteichthyes indet.
(Huxley 1880)
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Leahey and Salisbury 2013 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
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Ankylosauria indet.
(Osborn 1923)
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Leahey and Salisbury 2013 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
| QM F44324–44326 | ||||||||||
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Theropoda indet.
(Marsh 1881)
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Salisbury 2003 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
| teeth fragments | ||||||||||
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Titanosauriformes indet.
Salgado et al. 1997
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Leahey and Salisbury 2013 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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cf. Austrosaurus sp.
Longman 1933
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1 individual | |||||||||
| "Elliot"; AODF 836 | ||||||||||
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= Diamantinasaurus matildae
Hocknull et al. 2009
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Poropat et al. 2016 | |||||||||
| AODF 836 (also referred to as "Alex") | ||||||||||
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Anhangueria indet.
Rodrigues and Kellner 2013
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Pentland et al. 2022 | |||||||||
| AODF 2297 | ||||||||||
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Crocodylia indet.
(Owen 1842)
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Leahey and Salisbury 2013 | |||||||||
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= Crocodyliformes indet.
Hay 1930
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Pentland et al. 2022 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
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? Plesiosauria indet.
(de Blainville 1835)
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Leahey and Salisbury 2013 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Dolichosauridae
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Dolichosauridae indet.
Gervais 1852
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Leahey and Salisbury 2013 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| vertebra | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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Testudines indet.
Batsch 1788
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Leahey and Salisbury 2013 | |||||||||
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unclassified
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Cynodontia indet.
(Owen 1861)
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Leahey and Salisbury 2013 | |||||||||
| "a likely non-mammalian cynodont" | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Queensland |
| Coordinates: | 22.3° South, 143.1° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 51.6° South, 134.6° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Altitude: | 196 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Cenomanian - Early/Lower Turonian | Pollen zone: | Phimopollenites pannosus |
| Age range of interval: | 100.50000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Rolling Downs | Formation: | Winton | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: pollen zone inferred from nearby localities
Tucker et al. 2013 and Tucker et al. 2016 detrital zircon analysis suggest a maximum depositional age of 94–92Ma for the Winton Formation. The underlying upper Mackunda Formation had a maximum depositional age of 104–102Ma, suggesting that the base of the Winton Formation could be no older than Latest Albian. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | argillaceous sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "a thin, laterally continuous bed of fluvial siltstone" | |
| Environment: | fine channel fill |
| Geology comments: "interpreted to be part of either a point bar deposit or an abandoned channel fill deposit associated with an ox-bow lake" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Associated major elements: | all |
| Fragmentation: | extreme |
| Spatial resolution: | allochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ),sieve,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Collectors: | D. Elliot & S. Salisbury | Collection dates: | 1999-2004 |
| Collection method comments: includes work under the "Elliot Expeditions" of the "Winton Dinosaur Project" | |||
Metadata
| Also known as: | Elliot/Mary sector, D31, Belmont, Winton; AODL 127 | ||
| Database number: | 62553 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion | Enterer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion, M. Oreska |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-07-21 14:06:13 | Last modified: | 2023-04-20 12:22:14 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-07-21 14:06:13 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 36633. | ETE | S. W. Salisbury. 2002. A giant awakes. Australian Geographic 65:100-105 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 47109 | L. G. Leahey and S. W. Salisbury. 2013. First evidence of ankylosaurian dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Thyreophera) from the mid-Cretaceous (late Albian-Cenomanian) Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia. Alcheringa 37(2):249-257 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano] | |
| 81701 | A. H. Pentland, S. F. Poropat, M. A. White, S. L. Rigby, P. Vickers-Rich, T. H. Rich, and D. A. Elliott. 2022. New anhanguerian pterosaur remains from the Lower Cretaceous of Queensland, Australia. Alcheringa [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
| 82172 | S. F. Poropat, T. G. Frauenfelder, P. D. Mannion, S. L. Rigby, A. H. Pentland, T. Sloan, and D. A. Elliott. 2022. Sauropod dinosaur teeth from the lower Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia and the global record of early titanosauriforms. Royal Society Open Science 9:220381 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
| 75263 | S. F. Poropat, M. Kundrát, P. D. Mannion, P. Upchurch, T. T. Tischler and D. A. Elliott. 2021. Second specimen of the Late Cretaceous Australian sauropod dinosaur Diamantinasaurus matildae provides new anatomical information on the skull and neck of early titanosaurs. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 192:610-674 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
| 60643 | S. F. Poropat, P. D. Mannion, P. Upchurch, S. A. Hocknull, B. P. Kear, M. Kundrát, T. R. Tischler, T. Sloan, G. H. K. Sinapius, J. A. Elliott, and D. A. Elliott. 2016. New Australian sauropods shed light on Cretaceous dinosaur palaeobiogeography. Scientific Reports 6:34467:1-12 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
| 84439 | S. F. Poropat, P. D. Mannion, S. L. Rigby, R. J. Duncan, A. H. Pentland, J. J. Bevitt, T. Sloan and D. A. Elliott. 2023. A nearly complete skull of the sauropod dinosaur Diamantinasaurus matildae from the Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation of Australia and implications for the early evolution of titanosaurs. Royal Society Open Science 10:221618:1-74 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano] | |
| 18059 | ETE | 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] |
| 81566 | S. L. Rigby, S. F. Poropat, P. D. Mannion, A. H. Pentland, T. Sloan, S. J. Rumbold, C. B. Webster and D. A. Elliott. 2021. A juvenile Diamantinasaurus matildae (Dinosauria: Titanosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia, with implications for sauropod ontogeny. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 41(6):e2047991:1-20 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
| 35014 | ETE | S. W. Salisbury. 2003. Theropod teeth from the Lower Cretaceous (Albian-Cenomanian) Winton Formation, Central-Western Queensland, Australia. Conference on Australian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology, and Systematics 2003, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, July 7-11, Abstract volume 18-19 [M. Carrano/M. Oreska] |