Also known as Upper Watut, Awe Local Fauna
Where: Morobe, Papua New Guinea (7.0° S, 146.1° E: paleocoordinates 9.1° S, 145.4° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Otibanda Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; siliciclastic sediments and tuff
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: E. Hoch and P. M. Holm. 1986. New K/Ar age determinations of the Awe Fauna Gangue, Papua New Guinea: consequences for Papuaustralian late Cenozoic biostratigraphy. Modern Geology 10:181-195 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36266: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 22.01.2004, edited by Albert Garcia Selles
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Crocodylus cf. porosus Schneider 1801 saltwater crocodile | |
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Watutia novaeguineae n. gen. n. sp.1, cf. Dorcopsis sp.1, Protemnodon otibandus, Protemnodon buloloensis
Watutia novaeguineae n. gen. n. sp.1 Flannery et al. 1989 kangaroo incomplete left maxilla containing P3, M2-5, with incomplete right dentary with p3, m2-5
cf. Dorcopsis sp.1 Schlegel and Müller 1845 New Guinea forest wallaby partial maxilla originally reported on by Woodburne (1967) and Plane (1967)
Protemnodon buloloensis Plane 1967 kangaroo left P3, M2-4 and partial M5 and right I1, P3, partial M3, M4-5, with other skeletal remains
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