Where: East New Britain, Papua New Guinea (4.3° S, 151.8° E: paleocoordinates 4.3° S, 151.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Yalam Formation, Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; reef rocks and packstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: K. Bromfield. 2010. Evolutionary dynamics of Indo-Pacific reef corals throughout the Neogene. 1-269 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 124822: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.02.2012, edited by Mihaela Krause
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Alveopora "n. sp. B" Blainville 1830 stony coral
Alveopora oliveri n. sp. Bromfield 2013 stony coral | |
Madracis "n. sp. B" Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral
Madracis crassisepta n. sp. Bromfield 2013 stony coral | |
Favia cf. junghuhni Reuss 1867 stony coral | |
Cyphastrea "sp. A" Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Acanthastrea "sp. A" Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Acanthastrea echinata Dana 1846 stony coral | |
Pachyseris cf. curvata, "Pavona irregularis" = Pachyseris irregularis
Pachyseris cf. curvata Martin 1880 stony coral
"Pavona irregularis" = Pachyseris irregularis Umbgrove 1946 stony coral | |
Dictyaraea micrantha, Goniopora "sp. B", Goniopora cf. somaliensis, Porites lichen, Porites timorensis
Dictyaraea micrantha Reuss 1867 stony coral
Goniopora "sp. B" Blainville 1830 stony coral
Goniopora cf. somaliensis Vaughan 1907 stony coral
Porites lichen Dana 1846 stony coral
Porites timorensis Felix 1915 stony coral | |
Galaxea "n. sp. B" Oken 1815 stony coral
Galaxea kabairaensis Bromfield 2013 stony coral
Ctenella chagius Matthai 1928 stony coral |