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Eumeralla

66 occ. 22 taxa 1 countries
Description

The Eumeralla Formation is a geological formation in Victoria, Australia whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous. It is Aptian to Albian in age. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation, particularly from the Dinosaur Cove locality.

Eumeralla
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Figure 2: Fossil vertebrate locality of Eric the Red West. Shore platform looking west, showing undulating erosive boundary (solid white line) between the top of the Anchor Sandstone (AS) and the base of the ETRW Sandstone (ES). White dashed lines indicate selected bedding surfaces. White scale in mid-ground (indicated by arrow) equals 1 m. © Herne MC, Tait AM, Weisbecker V, Hall M, Nair JP, Cleeland M, Salisbury SW. · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikipedia
Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
Geological group / Member
Otway 66
Top countries
🇦🇺 Australia 66
Depositional environments
Floodplain 16
Channel lag 16
Fluvial indet. 11
Crevasse splay 11
Terrestrial indet. 10
Coarse channel fill 1
Fluvial-lacustrine indet. 1
Top collectors
T. Rich and crew 15
T. Rich 12
Rich 11
Vickers-Rich 11
T. Flannery 8
M. Cleeland 3
G. Caspar 2
T. Rich et al. 2
A. Edgerton 2
A. Martin 1
G. Denney 1
M. Lawrence 1
Collection activity by decade
1970s 4
1980s 95
1990s 52
2000s 44
2010s 21