Where: Papua New Guinea (5.7° S, 144.9° E: paleocoordinates 35.1° S, 122.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kana Formation, Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)
• Age originally given as "Carnian-Norian" only because all fossils are also found in underlying Jimi Formation. However, ammonoid Sirenites from Jimi Formation is more characteristically Carnian.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by F.E. Dekker in 1962
• Repository: Commonwealth Palaeontology Collection
Primary reference: S. K. Skwarko. 1967. First Upper Triassic and ? Lower Jurassic marine Mollusca from New Guinea. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 75:39-84 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 137277: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.12.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Costatoria cf. melanesiana Skwarko 1967 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
? Rhaphistomella kumbrufensis Skwarko 1967 snail | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Spiriferina cf. abichi Oppel 1865 |