Milanesia Beach tracksite: Aptian - Albian, Australia
collected by A. Martin, G. Denney, M. Lawrence, T. Rich 2010-2011, 2015, 2017
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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| Martin et al. 2012 | 24 specimens | |||||||||
| three size groups | ||||||||||
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unclassified
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Arenicolites sp.
Salter 1857
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Martin et al. 2012 | |||||||||
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Skolithos sp.
Haldemann 1840
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Martin et al. 2012 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Victoria |
| Coordinates: | 38.8° South, 143.3° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 81.0° South, 115.4° East (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | wave ripples,very fine,medium lithified sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | wave ripples siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "very fine to medium-grained sandstone and sandy siltstone. Sandstones and siltstones are thinly bedded (05.-70. cm) and ripple-laminated, with low-amplitude ripples" | |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression,trace |
| Degree of concentration: | concentrated |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Abundance in sediment: | common |
| Associated major elements: | many |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),field collection,observed (not collected) | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Collectors: | A. Martin, G. Denney, M. Lawrence, T. Rich | Collection dates: | 2010-2011, 2015, 2017 |
| Collection method comments: found on two float blocks | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 185865 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2017-05-22 16:40:33 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-05-22 16:40:33 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 90896. | A. J. Martin. 2011. Discovering dinosaur tracks from Milanesia Beach. Dinosaur Dreaming Field Report 2011:22–25 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 82447 | A. J. Martin. 2016. A close look at Victoria's first known dinosaur tracks. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 74:63-71 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 63428 | A. J. Martin, T. H. Rich, M. Hall, P. Vickers-Rich, and G. Vazquez-Prokopec. 2012. A polar dinosaur-track assemblage from the Eumeralla Formation (Albian), Victoria, Australia. Alcheringa 36:171-188 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 90893 | T. H. Rich. 2017. Just enough!. Dinosaur Dreaming Field Report 2017:36-37 [M. Carrano/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] |