The Winton Formation is a Cretaceous geological formation in central-western Queensland, Australia. It is late Albian to early Turonian in age.[2] The formation blankets large areas of central-western Queensland. It consists of sedimentary rocks such as sandstone, siltstone and claystone. The sediments that make up these rocks represent the remnants of the river plains that filled the basin left by the Eromanga Sea - an inland sea that covered large parts of Queensland and central Australia at least four times during the Early Cretaceous. Great meandering rivers, forest pools and swamps, creeks, lakes and coastal estuaries all left behind different types of sediment.
In some areas, the Winton Formation is over 400 metres thick. To bring with them such a huge amount of sediment, the rivers that flowed across these plains must have been comparable in size to the present-day Amazon or Mississippi rivers. As more and more sediment was brought in, the margins of the inland sea slowly contracted. By around 95 million years ago, the deposition was complete and the inland sea would never be seen again.
By virtue of its age and the environmental conditions under which the rocks it consists of were deposited, the Winton Formation represents one of the richest sources of dinosaur fossils anywhere in Australia.
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The WintonFormation is a Cretaceous geological formation in central-western Queensland, Australia. It is late Albian to early Turonian in age. The formation...
Museum of Natural History, which holds annual dinosaur digs in the WintonFormation of Western Queensland and oversees the year-round operation of Australia's...
Sauropod Dinosaur Savannasaurus elliottorum from the Upper Cretaceous WintonFormation of Queensland, Australia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 40 (3):...
Wintonotitan (meaning "Winton titan") is a genus of titanosauriform dinosaur from Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous)-age WintonFormation of Australia. It is known...
Winton may refer to: Winton, Queensland, a town Shire of Winton, Queensland Winton, Victoria, a town Winton Motor Raceway in Winton, Victoria Winton, New...
megaraptoran theropod dinosaur from Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous)-age WintonFormation (dated to 95 million years ago) of Australia. It is known from partial...
[citation needed] The WintonFormation represent remnants of the river plains that filled the basin left by the Eromanga Sea. The formation is a major source...
Diamantinasaurus matildae (Dinosauria: Titanosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous WintonFormation of Queensland, Australia, with implications for sauropod ontogeny"...
2009 by Scott Hocknull and colleagues based on fossil finds in the WintonFormation. Meaning "Diamantina lizard", the name is derived from the location...
possibly titanosaurian somphospondylan dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous WintonFormation (Cenomanian–Turonian) of southern-central Queensland, Australia. The...
rebbachisaurids. Beeston et al. (2024) describe new sauropod material from the WintonFormation (Australia), and interpret Australotitan cooperensis as an indeterminate...
and Diamantinasaurus from the WintonFormation of Queensland, as well as Sarmientosaurus from the Bajo Barreal Formation of Patagonia. The existence of...
the Cretaceous, including Emwadea microcarpa from the Albian aged WintonFormation of Australia and Wairarapaia mildenhallii from the Albian-Cenomanian...
Cretaceous WintonFormation of Queensland, Australia, containing the single species F. lentoni. The species was named after the former mayor of Winton, Graham...
"Paleoclimate of the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) Portion of the WintonFormation, Central-Western Queensland, Australia: New Observations Based on Clamp...
Gething Formation where it was found; and A. kortmeyeri, which honours Carl Kortmeyer who discovered the holotype. Large dinosaur tracks in the Winton Formation...
between 104 and 92 million years ago, and are part of the WintonFormation sandstone. In 2015, Winton Shire Council invited the Australian Age of Dinosaurs...
"Reappraisal of sauropod dinosaur diversity in the Upper Cretaceous WintonFormation of Queensland, Australia, through 3D digitisation and description of...
The Mackunda Formation is a geological formation in Queensland, Australia whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the...
genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous WintonFormation of Queensland, Australia. It contains one species, Savannasaurus elliottorum...
associated with exposed clay-rich sedimentary rocks of the Cretaceous WintonFormation, high-uranium elevated Cenozoic duricrust surfaces, and high-thorium...
is a genus of extinct eusuchian crocodyliform from the Cretaceous WintonFormation of Australia. Described as a macro-generalist, Confractosuchus was...
opal is found within a 300 km wide belt of sedimentary rocks in the WintonFormation. Here opal is found as a kernel in small concretions. The Koroit Opal...
among others in the Valle Alto Formation of Caldas and the Caballos Formation of Tolima, Colombia, and the WintonFormation, Eromanga Basin, Queensland,...
Loxaulax and Yaverlestes. A few fossils reported from the Toolebuc Formation and WintonFormation are believed to be from some of the most derived ornithocheiromorphs...
et sp. nov. – anatomically preserved araucarian seed cones from the WintonFormation (late Albian), western Queensland, Australia". Alcheringa. 36 (2):...
Sea, though the uppermost and terminal members, the WintonFormation and the Griman Creek Formation represents freshwater deposits. It is notable for its...
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