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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Buchia malayomaorica" = Malayomaorica malayomaorica
"Buchia malayomaorica" = Malayomaorica malayomaorica Krumbeck 1923 scallop | |
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Belemnopsis gerardi Oppel 1856 belemnite | |
Foraminifera | |
"Cristellaria" sp. Lamarck 1816 | |
Nodosariata | |
Nodosaria sp. Lamarck 1812
Dentalina sp. d'Orbigny 1826 |