Savannah (Jurassic to of New Caledonia)

Where: New Caledonia (22.2° S, 166.4° E: paleocoordinates 57.9° S, 100.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Early/Lower Hettangian to Early/Lower Hettangian (201.3 - 196.5 Ma)

• Nouméa - Dumbéa unit is not a formal formation.

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified, argillaceous sandstone and tuff

• The Nouméa - Dumbéa unit is one of the units of the Central Chain that correspond to more distal deposits of a volcanic arc.
• It is mainly composed of turbidites of fine graywackes, argillites, more rarely debris flows and zeolitic vitritic tuffs.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, original aragonite

Primary reference: C. Meister, P. Maurizot, and J. A. Grant-Mackie. 2010. Early Jurassic (Hettangian - Sinemurian) Ammonites from New Caledonia (French Overseas Territory, Western Pacific). Paleontological Research 14(2):85-118 [A. Kocsis/M. Gomez Correa]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 198415: authorized by Adam Kocsis, entered by Monica Alejandra Gomez Correa on 16.12.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Psiloceratidae
Murihikuites ex gr. mackellari, Caloceras sp., Caloceras aff. bloomfieldense
Murihikuites ex gr. mackellari Stevens 2004 ammonite
Caloceras sp. ammonite
Caloceras aff. bloomfieldense Donovan 1956 ammonite