Malasait PNG3.5, 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 124827: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.02.2012, edited by Mihaela Krause

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Diploastraeidae
Diploastrea heliopora
Diploastrea heliopora Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Montipora "n. sp. C", Montipora teresea n. sp.
Montipora "n. sp. C" Blainville 1830 stony coral
Montipora teresea n. sp. Bromfield 2013 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Favia cf. junghuhni
Favia cf. junghuhni Reuss 1867 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Cyphastrea "n. sp. B", Cyphastrea "n. sp. C", Cyphastrea buddae n. sp., Cyphastrea aliceae
Cyphastrea "n. sp. B" Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Cyphastrea "n. sp. C" Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Cyphastrea buddae n. sp. Bromfield 2013 stony coral
Cyphastrea aliceae Bromfield 2013 stony coral