Where: Papua New Guinea (5.9° S, 144.9° E: paleocoordinates 49.3° S, 112.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Maril Formation, Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)
• 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 137281: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.12.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Malayomaorica malayomaorica Krumbeck 1923 scallop | |
"Inoceramus cf. haasti" = Retroceramus haasti, Inoceramus "sp. juv."
"Inoceramus cf. haasti" = Retroceramus haasti Hochstetter 1863 clam
Inoceramus "sp. juv." Sowerby 1814 clam |