Toothawarra Creek (Cretaceous of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (22.7° S, 114.0° E: paleocoordinates 49.7° S, 100.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Miria Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Late Maastrichtian age indicated by ammonites, forams and other microfossils.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; condensed, nodular, phosphatic grainstone

• "The deposition of the Miria Formation began in the wake of a Late Maastrichtian marine transgression, resulting in quiet shelf deposits in the northern Carnarvon Basin...the unit has been condensed, with fragmentary fossil preservation indicating periods of higher water energy which winnowed the sequence"
• "Cream coloured calcarenite with abundant phosphatic grains and nodules"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E. Car in 1960

• WAM: Western Australian Museum

Primary reference: S. C. Bennett and J. A. Long. 1991. A large pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Late Maastrichtian) of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 15(2):435-443 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92270: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 04.11.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Pterosauria - Azhdarchidae
? Azhdarchidae indet.
? Azhdarchidae indet. pterosaur
WAM 60.57, ulna