North of Middle Purari River (Cretaceous of Papua New Guinea)

Where: Papua New Guinea (6.8° S, 144.9° E: paleocoordinates 38.2° S, 135.3° 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, green sandstone

• Greenish graywacke (one from shale)

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: 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 174839: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.11.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Labeceratidae
Labeceras trifidum Whitehouse 1926 ammonite
 Belemnitida - Dimitobelidae
Dimitobelus (Tetrabelus) macgregori Glaessner 1945 belemnite