Marree Subgroup
Template:Short description Template:Use Australian English Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "check for unknown parameters". The Marree Subgroup, previously described as Maree Formation and Marree Formation, is a geological subgroup in the Eromanga Basin of South Australia whose strata date back to the Aptian. The subgroup was first described as a formation by Forbes in 1966.[1][2] Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[3]
An opalised plesiosaur specimen of the genus Umoonasaurus has been nicknamed 'Eric' and was described in 1998 by Schroeder.[4] The decapod crab Dioratiopus salebrosus was described in 1980.[5]
Vertebrate paleofauna
Indeterminate theropod remains present in Western Australia.[3]
Dinosaurs
| Dinosaurs of the Marree Subgroup | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genus | Species | Presence | Notes | Images |
|
K. kujani[3] |
Geographically present in Western Australia, Australia.[3] |
"Hindlimb."[6] |
||
Sauropterygians
| Sauropterygians of the Marree Subgroup | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genus | Species | Presence | Notes | Images |
|
U. demoscyllus[7] |
Bulldog Shale of northern South Australia.[7] |
Known from an opalized skeleton nicknamed 'Eric'. |
| |
See also
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ 1988 - Tanh Van Doan - Sedimentology and mineralogy of some Jurassic-Cretaceous sediments of the southern Eromanga Basin - MSc. thesis
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ a b c d e Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Early Cretaceous, Australasia)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 573-574. Template:ISBN.
- ↑ 1999 - Recent developments in Australasian sauropterygian palaeontology (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) - Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement No. 57: 201-205
- ↑ Wooldridge Creek, Alberga River at Fossilworks.org
- ↑ "Table 4.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 76.
- ↑ a b c Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Further reading
- Schroeder, N. (1998). A review of order Pliosauria, and the description of a new, opalised pliosauroid, from the Early Cretaceous of Coober Pedy, South Australia. M.Sc. thesis, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria
- M. F. Glaessner. 1980. New Cretaceous and Tertiary crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura) from Australia and New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 104(6):171-192