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 124824: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.02.2012, edited by Mihaela Krause
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Astreopora "n. sp. A" Blainville 1830 stony coral | |
Platygyra "n. sp. A", Platygyra renemai, Platygyra contorta, Cyphastrea gemmulifera, Leptoria "n. sp. B", Leptoria traba, Goniastrea favulus
Platygyra "n. sp. A" Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
Platygyra renemai Bromfield 2013 stony coral
Platygyra contorta Veron 1990 stony coral
Cyphastrea gemmulifera Gerth 1921 stony coral
Leptoria "n. sp. B" Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Leptoria traba Bromfield 2013 stony coral
Goniastrea favulus Dana 1846 stony coral | |
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Leptastrea bewickensis Veron and Pichon 1977 stony coral | |
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Plesiastrea versipora Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
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Diploastrea heliopora Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
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Porites timorensis Felix 1915 stony coral | |
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Ctenella chagius Matthai 1928 stony coral | |