Detrital zircon age constraints for the Winton Formation, Queensland: Contextualizing Australia's Late Cretaceous dinosaur faunas

The Winton Formation provides an important snapshot of Australia's late Mesozoic terrestrial biota, boasting a vertebrate fauna that includes dinosaurs, crocodyliforms, aquatic squamates, turtles, lungfish and teleost fishes, and a flora that has previously been considered to include some of the world's earliest known flowering plants. Despite its significance, poor age control has thus far prevented precise regional and global correlations,...