Chapter 3: Diversity of Early Cretaceous Mammals from Victoria, Australia

Abstract

Abstract At least six different taxa are represented among the 21 specimens of mammals found at the Early Cretaceous Flat Rocks site in southeastern Australia. Analysis of these fossils reveals that, although the yield of mammalian specimens per person-year of effort at this locality is remarkably low, it is reasonable to expect that with further effort this assemblage will ultimately prove to be as diverse as any Early Cretaceous mammal assemblage known. By contrast, the two mammalian specimens collected thus far from the Early Cretaceous Dinosaur Cove locality in southeastern Australia are all that are likely to ever be recovered there.