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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Protemnodon otibandus, Protemnodon buloloensis, cf. Dorcopsis sp.1, Watutia novaeguineae n. gen. n. sp.1
Protemnodon buloloensis Plane 1967 kangaroo left P3, M2-4 and partial M5 and right I1, P3, partial M3, M4-5, with other skeletal remains
cf. Dorcopsis sp.1 Schlegel and Müller 1845 New Guinea forest wallaby partial maxilla originally reported on by Woodburne (1967) and Plane (1967)
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
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Reptilia | |
Crocodylus cf. porosus Schneider 1801 saltwater crocodile | |
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