Genus: Steropodon ARCHER, FLANNERY, RITCHIE & MOLNAR, 1985
Etymology:

Species: galmani ARCHER, FLANNERY, RITCHIE & MOLNAR, 1985
Etymology:

Holotype: AM F66763

Locality: Lightning Ridge, New South Wales State, Australia.

Horizon: Wallangulla Sandstone Member, Griman Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Albian Stage, Middle Gallic Subepoch, Upper Early Cretaceous Epoch, Early Cretaceous.

Material: Right dentary fragment with m1-3.

Note: Opalized.

Referred material:

FLANNERY, MCCURRY, RICH, VICKERS-RICH, SMITH & HELGEN, 2024

Locality: Talings heap at the Tank Five processing Dam, 29.406629°S, 147.779965°E, on the Coocoran Opal Fields west of Lightning Ridge Towhnship, New South Wales State, Australia.

Horizon: Finch Clay facies, Wallangulla Sandstoen Member, Griman Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Cenomanian Stage, Late Gallic subepoch, Earliest Gulf Epoch, Middle Cretaceous.

Material:

AM F161197: Partial right dentary with the base of the ascending ramus and large dental canal, hosting alveoli for m3, the posterior alveolus for the m2, and the posteriro surface of the anterior alveolus of m2.

From a different tailings heap.

AM F97263: A right dentary fragment preserving the anterior wall of anterior alveolus of the m3, both alveoli of m2, the posterior alveolus and part of the anterior alveolus of the m1.

 

 

RICH, FLANNERY & ARCHER, 1989

Locality: Opal field at Lightning Ridge, New South Wales State, Australia.

Horizon: Griman Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Albian Stage, Middle Gallic Subepoch, Upper Early Cretaceous Epoch, Early Cretaceous.

Material:

AM F66786: Fragment of maxilla with UMI and fragment of UM2.