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

这项提议是为了研究昆士兰西部温顿组新发现的化石遗址中的脊椎动物组合。这些遗址表明，温顿组是澳大利亚下白垩世最具古生物生产力的陆相层序之一。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、植物和相对较短时间内受限生物群的痕迹化石。对这些新遗址的研究将为我们提供第一个详细的窗口，了解澳大利亚北部下白垩世低地和冈瓦那最后解体期间的沿海环境。

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.