Locality 47, Ok Tedi headwaters (Cretaceous of Papua New Guinea)

Where: Papua New Guinea (5.1° S, 141.2° E: paleocoordinates 34.8° S, 132.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ieru Formation, Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• "Cenomanian, probably middle Cenomanian"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float)

• Repository: Commonwealth Palaeontology Collection, Canberra (CPC)

Primary reference: T. Matsumoto and S. K. Skwarko. 1991. Ammonites of the Cretaceous Ieru Formation, western Papua New Guinea. BMR Journal of Australian Geology & Geophysics 12:245-262 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 177070: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.03.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Acanthoceras rhotomagense Brongniart 1822 ammonite