Seas off Ndrova Island (Holocene of Papua New Guinea)

Where: Manus, Papua New Guinea (2.1° S, 147.0° E: paleocoordinates 2.1° S, 147.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: soft parts

Collected by Ward and Saunders in 1984; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: P. D. Ward and W. B. Saunders. 1997. Allonautilus: A new genus of living nautiloid cephalopod and its bearing on phylogeny of the Nautilida. Journal of Paleontology 71(6):1054-1064 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 108263: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 27.04.2011

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
Allonautilus scrobiculatus Ward and Saunders 1997