Sample 215, Upper Fly River, Kuabgen Group (Jurassic to of Papua New Guinea)

Where: Papua New Guinea (5.3° S, 141.4° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 45.9° S, 131.1° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kuabgen Group, Callovian to Callovian (166.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• top of lower division of Kuabgen group

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, black shale and lithified sandstone

• dark shales, locally forming a shell breccia

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: M. F. Glaessner. 1945. Mesozoic Fossils from the Central Highlands of New Guinea. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 56(2):151-168 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64219: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 04.09.2006

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
"Buchia malayomaorica" = Malayomaorica malayomaorica
"Buchia malayomaorica" = Malayomaorica malayomaorica Krumbeck 1923 scallop
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Belemnopseidae
Belemnopsis gerardi Oppel 1856 belemnite
Foraminifera
  -
"Cristellaria" sp. Lamarck 1816
Nodosariata
 Robertinida - Epistominidae
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Nodosaria sp. Lamarck 1812
Dentalina sp. d'Orbigny 1826