Allaru Formation

{{Infobox rockunit

| name = Allaru Formation

| type = Geological formation

| age = Albian
~{{fossil range|112|100}}

| period = Albian

| prilithology = Mudstone

| otherlithology = Siltstone, sandstone, limestone

| region = Queensland

| country = Australia

| coordinates = {{coord|24|52|02.17|S|146|14|19.85|E|display=inline,title|region:AU_type:city_source:GNS-enwiki}}

| paleocoordinates = {{coord|51.0|S|133.1|E|display=inline}}

| unitof = Rolling Downs Group

| underlies = Mackunda Formation

| overlies = Toolebuc Formation

| thickness = Up to {{convert|700|m|ft|abbr=on}}

| extent = Eromanga Basin

| map = {{Location map+ | Australia#Queensland

| relief = 1

| width = 250

| float = center

| places =

{{Location map~ | Australia#Queensland

| lat_deg = -24.867269

| lon_deg = 146.238847

| mark = Green pog.svg

| marksize = 12

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The Allaru Formation, also known as the Allaru Mudstone, is a geological formation in Queensland, Australia, whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.Weishampel et al., 2004, pp.573-574

Fossil content

Possible indeterminate ankylosaur remains are present in Queensland. Indeterminate ornithopod remains are present in Queensland.

= Archosaurs =

== Dinosaurs ==

Genus	Species	Location	Material	Notes	Images
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Austrosaurus \| A. mckillopi \| Queensland \| "Doral vertebrae [and possible] incomplete limb remains from several individuals"{{Cite journal \|last=Fuchs \|first=Dirk \|year=2019 \|title=Eromangateuthis N. Gen., a New Genus for a Late Albian Gladius-Bearing Giant Octobrachian (Cephalopoda: Coleoidea) \|journal=Paleontological Contributions \|volume=2019 \|issue=21 \|pages=1–3 \|doi=10.17161/1808.29619 \|s2cid=204976334 \|issn=1946-0279\|doi-access=free \|hdl=1808/29619 \|hdl-access=free }} \| A Somphospondyli sauropod. \| File:Austrosaurus McKillopi.png
Kunbarrasaurus \| K. ieversi \| Queensland \| \| A parankylosaur. Leahey et al., 2015 \| File:Minmi model Canberra email.jpg
?Muttaburrasaurus \| ?M. sp. \| Queensland \| \| align=center \| \| File:Muttaburrasaurus NT.jpg

== Reptiles ==

Genus	Species	Location	Material	Notes	Images
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Elasmosauridae \|Indeterminate \| \|Specimen number QMF2100, an articulated torso. Stomach cavity contains crustacean and fish remains as well as ~135 gastroliths.{{Cite journal \|author=Colin R. McHenry \|author2=Alex G. Cook \|author3=Stephen Wroe \|date=November 2005 \|title=Bottom-Feeding Plesiosaurs \|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7554325 \|journal=Science \|volume=310 \|issue=5745 \|page=75 \|doi=10.1126/science.1117241 \|pmid=16210529 \|s2cid=28832109 \|via=ResearchGate}} \| \|
Notochelone \|N. costata \| \| \| \|File:Notochelone costata.jpg
Platypterygius \|P. australis (=longmani) \| \| \|{{Cite journal \|last=Kear \|first=Benjamin P. \|date=June 2003 \|title=Cretaceous marine reptiles of Australia: A review of taxonomy and distribution \|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222825936 \|journal=Cretaceous Research \|volume=24 \|issue=3 \|pages=277–303\|doi=10.1016/S0195-6671(03)00046-6 \|bibcode=2003CrRes..24..277K \|via=ResearchGate}} \|File:Platypterigius kiprjanov2.jpg

= Fish =

Genus	Species	Location	Material	Notes	Images
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Cooyoo \| C. australis \| Queensland \| \| align=center \| {{Cite journal \|author=Lovisa Wretman \|author2=Benjamin P. Kear \|date=April 2014 \|title=Bite marks on an ichthyodectiform fish from Australia: Possible evidence of trophic interaction in an Early Cretaceous marine ecosystem \|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263762693 \|journal=Alcheringa \|volume=38 \|issue=2\|pages=170–176 \|doi=10.1080/03115518.2014.848692 \|bibcode=2014Alch...38..170W \|s2cid=140194963 \|via=ResearchGate}} \|
Flindersichthys \|F. denmeadi \| \| \|{{Cite journal \|last=Bartholomai \|first=A. \|date=2010 \|title=Revision of Flindersichthys denmeadi Longman 1932, a marine teleost from the Lower Cretaceous of the Great Artesian Basin, Queensland \|journal=Memoirs of the Queensland Museum\|s2cid=189970876 }} \|
Pachyrhizodus \|P. marathonensis, P. grawi \| \| \|Two species known from both this and the Toolebuc Formation{{Cite journal \|last=Bartholomai \|first=A. \|date=17 February 2012 \|title=The pachyrhizodontid teleosts from the marine Lower Cretaceous (latest mid to late Albian) sediments of the Eromanga Basin, Queensland, Australia \|url=https://theworkshops.qm.qld.gov.au/About+Us/Publications/Memoirs+of+the+Queensland+Museum/MQM+Vol+56/mqmn56-1-bartholomai \|journal=Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature \|volume=56 \|issue=1 \|pages=119–148}} \|
Richmondichthys \|R. sweeti \| \| \|An aspidorhynchid also found in the Toolebuc Formation{{Cite journal \|last=Bartholomai \|first=A. \|date=2004 \|title=The large aspidorhynchid fish, Richmondichthys sweeti (Etheridge Jnr and Smith Woodward, 1891) from Albian Marine deposits of Queensland, Australia \|journal=Memoirs of the Queensland Museum\|s2cid=195531265 }} \|

= Invertebrates =

Genus	Species	Location	Material	Notes	Images
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Eromangateuthis \| E. soniae \| Queensland \| "Gladius" \| align=center \| \|
Goodhallites \|G. goodhalli \| \| \|{{Cite journal \|author=R.A. Henderson \|author2=W.J. Kennedy \|title=Occurrence of the ammonite Goodhallites goodhalli (J. Sowerby) in the Eromanga Basin, Queensland: an index species for the late Albian (Cretaceous) \|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249025903 \|journal=Alcheringa \|year=2002 \|volume=26 \|issue=2 \|pages=233–247\|doi=10.1080/03115510208619254 \|bibcode=2002Alch...26..233H \|s2cid=130589426 \|via=ResearchGate}} \|
Inoceramus \|I. sutherlandi \|Queensland \| \|{{Cite journal \|author=Patrick Mark Smith \|author2=Timothy Holland \|date=July 2016 \|title=Cretaceous time capsules: remarkable preservation of fish and crustaceans inside the bivalve Inoceramus sutherlandi McCoy, 1865 from the Allaru Mudstone (late Albian), Eromanga Basin, Queensland \|website=ResearchGate \|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305401022 \|doi=10.13140/RG.2.1.2264.9842 \|doi-access=free}} \|
Mckenziephyllia \|M. accordensis \| \| \|{{Cite journal \|author=John S. Jell \|author2=Alex G. Cook \|author3=Peter A. Jell \|date=2010 \|title=Australian Cretaceous Cnidaria and Porifera \|journal=Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology \|volume=35 \|issue=2 \|pages=241–284 \|doi=10.1080/03115518.2011.532322 \|s2cid=129707733 }} \|

References

= Bibliography =

{{cite journal |last1=Leahey |first1=Lucy G. |last2=Molnar |first2=Ralph E. |last3=Carpenter |first3=Kenneth |last4=Witmer |first4=Lawrence M. |last5=Salisbury |first5=Steven W. |year=2015 |title=Cranial osteology of the ankylosaurian dinosaur formerly known as Minmi sp. (Ornithischia: Thyreophora) from the Lower Cretaceous Allaru Mudstone of Richmond, Queensland, Australia |journal=PeerJ |volume=3 |pages=e1475 |doi=10.7717/peerj.1475 |pmid=26664806|pmc=4675105 |doi-access=free }}
{{cite book |editor-last=Weishampel |editor-first=David B. |editor-link=David B. Weishampel |editor-last2=Dodson |editor-first2=Peter |editor-link2=Peter Dodson |editor-last3=Osmólska |editor-first3=Halszka |editor-link3=Halszka Osmólska |year=2004 |title=The Dinosauria, 2nd edition |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vtZFDb_iw40C |publisher=Berkeley: University of California Press |pages=1–880 |access-date=2019-02-21 |isbn=0-520-24209-2}}

Category:Cretaceous System of Australia

Category:Early Cretaceous Australia

Category:Albian Stage

Category:Mudstone formations

Category:Shallow marine deposits

Category:Fossiliferous stratigraphic units of Oceania

Category:Paleontology in Queensland