Where: Western Australia, Australia (22.8° S, 114.1° E: paleocoordinates 49.7° S, 100.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Korojon Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Ammonite species assigned to formation based on Henderson et al. (1992), who correlated the upper nodule bed of the Korojon calcarenite as early Maastrichtian.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: poorly lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collection methods: Repository: Commonwealth Palaeontological Collection (CPC)
Primary reference: R. O. Brunnschweiler. 1966. Upper Cretaceous ammonites from the Carnarvon Basin of Western Australia I: the heteromorph Lytoceratina. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 58:1-58 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 190314: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.12.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Cephalopoda | |
"Nostoceras attenuatum n. sp." = Nostoceras (Didymoceras) attenuatum, "Nostoceras fisheri n. sp." = Nostoceras (Nostoceras) fisheri
"Nostoceras attenuatum n. sp." = Nostoceras (Didymoceras) attenuatum Brunnschweiler 1966 ammonite
"Nostoceras fisheri n. sp." = Nostoceras (Nostoceras) fisheri Brunnschweiler 1966 ammonite | |
"Giralites latecarinatus n. gen. n. sp." = Eubaculites latecarinatus
"Giralites latecarinatus n. gen. n. sp." = Eubaculites latecarinatus Brunnschweiler 1966 ammonite | |