Vaiviri [green marl facies]: Late/Upper Miocene, Papua New Guinea
collected by Wade

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Ditrupa javanae
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium cf. octogonum
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Natica mamilla Linnaeus 1758
recombined as Natica (Natica) mamilla
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus ornatissima
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Turris cf. coronifera
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Oliva funebralis Lamarck 1811
Bivalvia - Arcida - Noetiidae
Arca bataviana Martin 1883
recombined as Arcopsis (Arcopsis) bataviana
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Arca compacta
Arca biformis Martin 1883
recombined as Anadara (Anadara) biformis
Nummulitidae
Operculina complanata
Rotaliidae
Rotalia schroeteriana
Tubothalamea - Miliolida
Miliolina vulgaris
Miliolina cuvieriana
see common names

Geography
Country:Papua New Guinea
Coordinates: 8.0° South, 145.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:13.5° South, 143.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Miocene
Age range of interval:11.63000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From undescribed lithostratigraphy, hence stratigraphic relationships are unknown. AGE: Late Miocene according to Chapman (1918). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the ferruginous mudstone at this section, which is not described in detail.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal,green unlithified marl
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Soft green marl, with abundant shells. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of facies description.
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Not stated in text, but appears to be relatively shallow shelf depths.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:Wade
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: A. Wade, early 1910's. REPOSITORY: National Museum of Australia.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Appears exhaustive for gastropoda and bivalvia, with many lists also providing foraminifera, and anthozoa. NOMENCLATURE: Material identified by F. Chapman (National Museum of Australia). Publication is not authoritative and very antiquated. Only taxa identified to species resolution are included by the enterer, to permit complete and accurate taxonomic vetting.
Metadata
Database number:78307
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-02-01 13:39:24 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-02-01 13:39:24
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

26357. F. Chapman. 1918. A report on a collection of Cainozoic fossils from the oil-fields of Papua. Bulletin of the Territory of Papua 5:1-17 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]