Kubukirua Creek, west of Kuage Village (Cretaceous of Papua New Guinea)

Where: Papua New Guinea (6.3° S, 145.2° E: paleocoordinates 37.7° S, 135.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by G.A.V. Stanley

• Repository: Adelaide University Geology Department

Primary reference: M. F. Glaessner. 1958. New Cretaceous fossils from New Guinea, with a contribution on a new ammonite genus. Records of the South Australian Museum 13:199-226 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174833: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.11.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Aucellina gryphaeoides Sowerby 1836 scallop
Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
Cymatoceras hendersoni Etheridge 1892 nautiloid
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
"Puzosia cf. planulata" = Puzosia (Puzosia) planulatus
"Puzosia cf. planulata" = Puzosia (Puzosia) planulatus Sowerby 1827 ammonite