KAB323, Kereru Range (Cretaceous of Papua New Guinea)

Where: Papua New Guinea (7.1° S, 144.8° E: paleocoordinates 36.9° S, 136.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• From "Tubu Shale"

• 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 174843: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.11.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
"Puzosia aff. mayoriana" = Puzosia (Puzosia) mayoriana
"Puzosia aff. mayoriana" = Puzosia (Puzosia) mayoriana d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite