Life and environments of the Lower Cretaceous Winton Formation, western Queensland: The Winton Dinosaur Project

昆士兰州西部下白垩统温顿组的生命和环境：温顿恐龙项目

• 批准号: LP0347332
• 负责人: Dr Steven Salisbury
• 金额: $ 18.64万
• 依托单位: The University of Queensland
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Linkage Projects
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2003-03-31 至 2006-03-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/LP0347332
• 关键词: Life; environments; Lower; Cretaceous; Winton

This proposal is for research into vertebrate assemblages from newly discovered fossil sites in the Winton Formation, western Queensland. These sites indicate that the Winton Formation is one of the most palaeontologically productive Lower Cretaceous continental sequences in Australia. Within it are preserved vertebrates (including several new types of dinosaurs, crocodilians, turtles, lungfish and freshwater sharks), invertebrates, plants and trace-fossils of a restricted biome over a relatively short time span. Research into these new sites will provide us with our first-ever detailed window on northern Australia's Lower Cretaceous lowland and coastal environments during the final break-up of Gondwana.

该提案旨在研究昆士兰州西部温顿组新发现的化石地点的脊椎动物组合。这些地点表明温顿组是澳大利亚古生物学最丰富的下白垩统大陆序列之一。其中保存了脊椎动物（包括几种新型恐龙、鳄鱼、海龟、肺鱼和淡水鲨鱼）、无脊椎动物、植物和在相对较短的时间内有限生物群落的痕迹化石。对这些新地点的研究将为我们提供有史以来第一个详细了解冈瓦纳大陆最终分裂期间澳大利亚北部下白垩纪低地和沿海环境的窗口。