Lovelle Downs Station (3 km east-southeast): Cenomanian - Early/Lower Turonian, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Austrosaurus sp.
Longman 1933
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1 individual | |||||||||
| QM F6737 (dorsal centrum, prpximal and middle caudal centra, ribs, incomplete scapula, proximal ischium) | ||||||||||
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= Titanosauridae indet.
Lydekker 1885
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Molnar 2001 | |||||||||
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= Titanosauria indet.
Bonaparte and Coria 1993
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Molnar and Salisbury 2005 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Queensland |
| Coordinates: | 22.2° South, 142.6° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 51.6° South, 133.3° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Altitude: | 200 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Key time interval: | Cenomanian - Early/Lower Turonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 100.50000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Rolling Downs | Formation: | Winton | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: See Tucker et al. 2013 | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | ferruginous,black,yellow not reported |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "The bones are coated with thin tan or dark brown (presumed) ironstone, and the internal cavities filled with black ironstone." | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Associated major elements: | all |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Winton, QM L244 | ||
| Database number: | 60796 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-05-23 10:38:03 | Last modified: | 2022-05-12 03:06:57 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-05-23 10:38:03 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 17490. | ETE | W. P. Coombs, Jr. and R. E. Molnar. 1981. Sauropoda (Reptilia, Saurischia) from the Cretaceous of Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 20(2):351-373 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 82629 | R. E. Molnar. 2001. A reassessment of the phylogenetic position of Cretaceous sauropod dinosaurs from Queensland, Australia. VII International Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems. Asociación Paleontológica Argentina Publicación Especial 7:139-144 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 71375 | R. E. Molnar. 2010. Taphonomic observations on eastern Australian Cretaceous sauropods. Alcheringa 34(3):421-429 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 45868 | R. E. Molnar. 2011. New morphological information about Cretaceous sauropod dinosaurs frm the Eromanga Basin, Queensland, Australia. Alcheringa 35(2):329-339 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano] | |
| 19582 | ETE | R. E. Molnar and S. W. Salisbury. 2005. Observations on Cretaceous sauropods from Australia. In K. Carpenter and V. Tidwell (eds.), Thunder-Lizards: The Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 454-465 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 46279 | R. E. H. Molnar. 1982. A catalogue of fossil amphibians and reptiles in Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 20(3):613-633 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |