KAB88, Kereru Range (Cretaceous of Papua New Guinea)

Where: Papua New Guinea (7.1° S, 144.8° E: paleocoordinates 53.2° S, 120.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tubu Shale Formation, Late/Upper Berriasian (145.0 - 140.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Abede Survey in 1955

• Repository: Commonwealth Palaeontology Collection (CPC)

Primary reference: T. Matsumoto and S. K. Skwarko. 1993. Cretaceous ammonites from south-central Papua New Guinea. AGSO Journal of Australia Geology & Geophysics 14:411-433 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174842: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.11.2015

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
Fauriella boissieri Pictet 1867 ammonite