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

这项提案是为了研究在昆士兰西部温顿组新发现的化石地点的脊椎动物组合。这些遗址表明，温顿组是澳大利亚下白垩纪最具古生物生产力的大陆序列之一。在它里面保存着脊椎动物（包括几种新的恐龙、鳄鱼目动物、海龟、肺鱼和淡水鲨鱼）、无脊椎动物、植物和一个有限的生物群落在相对较短的时间跨度内的痕迹化石。对这些新地点的研究将为我们提供第一个详细的窗口，了解冈瓦纳大陆最后解体时澳大利亚北部下白垩纪低地和沿海环境。

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.