The Mackunda Formation is a geological formation in Queensland, Australia whose strata date back to the Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.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. . It consists primarily of interbedded and cross bedded greensand, with variably calcareous shale, with local ferricrete.
Fossil content
Dinosaurs
Ornithischians Ornithischians of the Mackunda FormationGenusSpeciesLocationStratigraphic positionMaterialNotesImage Iguanodontidae Indet. Indeterminate Queensland, Australia. Cenomanian Muttaburrasaurus M. langdoni Queensland, Australia. Cenomanian "Skull and postcrania, fragmentary skeleton.""Table 19.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 416. A giant elasmarian ornithopod
Pterosaurs Pterosaurs of the Mackunda FormationGenusSpeciesLocationStratigraphic positionMaterialNotesImage Ctenochasmatoidea Indet. Indeterminate Queensland, Australia. Cenomanian
See also List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
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