Where: Northern Territory, Australia (11.8° S, 130.4° E: paleocoordinates 40.1° S, 117.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Acanthoceras rhotomagense ammonoid zone, Moonkinu Formation (Bathurst Island Group), Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• most specimens are from a single 0.75 m bed, but some are from "near" the bed

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, bioturbated, glauconitic, sideritic, calcareous sandstone

Preservation: concretion

Collection methods: surface (float),

• "from in an near the Tapara bed and from beach boulders"

Primary reference: J. D. Stilwell and R. A. Henderson. 2002. Description and paleobiogeographic significance of a rare Cenomanian molluscan faunule from Bathurst Island, northern Australia. Journal of Paleontology 76(3):447-471 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13944: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.05.2002

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