LW479, Gurimatu, Purari River (Cretaceous of Papua New Guinea)

Where: Papua New Guinea (6.7° S, 144.7° E: paleocoordinates 36.6° S, 136.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Pio-Purari Survey in 1954

• 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 174851: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.11.2015

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae