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: coastal; 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 78304: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.02.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium octogonum tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
"Corbula crassa" = Corbula (Serracorbula) crassa
"Corbula crassa" = Corbula (Serracorbula) crassa Hinds 1843 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Turris (Surcula) cf. djiki turrid | |
"Conus vimineus" = Conasprella (Fusiconus) vimineus
"Conus vimineus" = Conasprella (Fusiconus) vimineus Reeve 1849 cone shell | |
Nassa tambacana true whelk | |
Foraminifera | |
Cristellaria rotulata Lamarck 1804 | |
Tubothalamea | |
Nodosariata | |