Where: Papua New Guinea (5.0° S, 144.0° E: paleocoordinates 35.3° S, 128.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Yuat Formation, Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, black shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by D.B. Dow in 1966
• Repository: Commonwealth Palaeontology Collection
Primary reference: S. K. Skwarko. 1973. Middle and Upper Triassic Mollusca from Yuat River, eastern New Guinea. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 126:27-50 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 137328: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.12.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid | |
Germanonautilus "sp. B" von Mojsisovics 1902 nautiloid | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily |