Malasait PNG3.3, New Britain (Miocene of Papua New Guinea)
Where: East New Britain, Papua New Guinea (4.5° S, 151.9° E: paleocoordinates 4.5° S, 151.9° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Yalam Formation, Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; rudstone
• lower to intermediate reef slope
• pebble conglomerate rudstone
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 124826: 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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Cyphastrea "n. sp. B" Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Cyphastrea aliceae n. sp. Bromfield 2013 stony coral
Favites pentagona Esper 1794 stony coral | |