Also known as Eagles Nest, Cape Patterson, Cape Paterson
Where: Victoria, Australia (38.7° S, 145.7° E: paleocoordinates 77.8° S, 114.2° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Crybelosporites striatus pollen zone, Wonthaggi Formation (Strzelecki Group), Aptian (125.5 - 112.0 Ma)
• also Cyclosporites lagtesii sporeopolen subzone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithified sandstone and lithified, conglomeratic mudstone
•Formation (Otway Group) comprise finely laminated sandstones and
•mudstones with locally abundant horizontally stratified fossiliferous claystone/
•mudstone conglomerates. These were laid down by meandering to
•braided river systems in a mid-Cretaceous rift valley flood plain formed
•as a result of the onset of rifting between Australia and Antarctica"
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by W. H. Ferguson, T. Rich in 1905, 1990-
Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,
• original Ceratodus and theropod specimens collected by W. H. Ferguson, brought to Woodward by J. W. Gregory. Later excavations at same site.
•NMV, Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Primary reference: A. S. Woodward. 1906. On a tooth of Ceratodus and a dinosaurian claw from the Lower Jurassic of Victoria, Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 7 18(103):1-3 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 38538: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 23.04.2004, edited by Roger Benson