Vellum Downs (Cretaceous of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (21.7° S, 143.7° E: paleocoordinates 52.9° S, 132.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mackunda Formation (Rolling Downs Group), Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• upper half of formation, latest Albian age

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; sandy siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: QM: Queensland Museum, Brisbane

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 100369: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 08.12.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pterosauria -
Ctenochasmatoidea indet. Unwin 1995 pterosaur
QM F42739, proximal pterosaur humerus