H538, Koro River (Jurassic of Papua New Guinea)

Where: Papua New Guinea (5.9° S, 144.9° E: paleocoordinates 49.3° S, 112.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Maril Formation, Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by F.E. Dekker 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 137281: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.12.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
"Inoceramus cf. haasti" = Retroceramus haasti, Inoceramus "sp. juv."
"Inoceramus cf. haasti" = Retroceramus haasti Hochstetter 1863 clam
Inoceramus "sp. juv." Sowerby 1814 clam
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Malayomaorica malayomaorica Krumbeck 1923 scallop