Masul Village, Chimbu River (Cretaceous of Papua New Guinea)

Where: Papua New Guinea (6.0° S, 145.0° E: paleocoordinates 35.9° S, 136.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Age inferred by Matsumoto & Skwarko 1993

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by G.A.V. Stanley in 1949

• Repository: Adelaide University Geology Department. Specimens presented to a party led by G.A.V. Stanley in 1949.

Primary reference: M. F. Glaessner. 1958. New Cretaceous fossils from New Guinea, with a contribution on a new ammonite genus. Records of the South Australian Museum 13:199-226 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174838: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.11.2015

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya cuneata n. sp. Glaessner 1958 clam
Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
Cymatoceras hendersoni Etheridge 1892 nautiloid
 Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
Chimbuites sinuosocostatus n. gen. n. sp. Casey and Glaessner 1958 ammonite