Where: Papua New Guinea (7.8° S, 145.2° E: paleocoordinates 13.3° S, 143.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From undescribed lithostratigraphy, hence stratigraphic relationships are unknown. AGE: Late Miocene according to Chapman (1918). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the blue marl facies at this section, which is not described in detail.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep-water; shelly/skeletal, blue marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Wade
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: A. Wade, early 1910's. REPOSITORY: National Museum of Australia.
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 78302: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.02.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium djiki tusk shell
Dentalium octogonum tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Ostrea cf. incisa Martin 1883 oyster | |
Gastropoda | |
Turricula gembacana snail | |
Conus insculptus cone shell | |
Terebra woowardiana auger snail | |
Gymnolaemata | |