Kerabi Valley (Mott collection) (Cretaceous of Papua New Guinea)

Where: Papua New Guinea (6.7° S, 144.2° E: paleocoordinates 36.5° S, 135.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• Greensands with Mantelliceras and other acanthoceratids

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic, green sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W.D. Mott

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 174836: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.11.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
"Trigonia" papuana n. sp. Glaessner 1958 clam
Sedentaria
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Rotularia spirulaeoides n. sp. Glaessner 1958