Where: Papua New Guinea (5.6° S, 144.7° E: paleocoordinates 35.0° S, 122.0° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Jimi Formation, Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)
• Age originally given as "Carnian-Norian" but ammonoid Sirenites is more characteristically Carnian.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by D.B. Dow in 1962
• Repository: Commonwealth Palaeontology Collection
Primary reference: S. K. Skwarko. 1967. First Upper Triassic and ? Lower Jurassic marine Mollusca from New Guinea. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 75:39-84 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 137264: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.12.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Bivalvia | |
Costatoria melanesiana n. sp.
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Gervillancea coxiella n. gen. n. sp.
Gervillancea coxiella n. gen. n. sp. Skwarko 1967 oyster | |
|
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
| Scaphopoda | |
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Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
| Gastropoda | |
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? Rhaphistomella kumbrufensis n. sp. Skwarko 1967 snail | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
"Rhynchonella cf. mutabilis" = Nudirostralina mutabilis
"Rhynchonella cf. mutabilis" = Nudirostralina mutabilis Stoliczka 1866 | |