Where: Western Highland, Papua New Guinea (5.6° S, 144.1° E: paleocoordinates 36.0° S, 104.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kuta Formation, Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)

• In places the limestone appears to grade laterally into calcareous breccia containing fragments of metamorphic rocks. The limestone rests on, and in places grades laterally into, a coarse, calcerous arkose, which in turn unconformably overlies the Kubor Granodiorite of the Omung Metamorphics. The formation is overlain by either the Late Jurassic Maril Shale or the Early Crestaceous Kondake Tuff.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: S. K. Skwarko, R. S. Nicoll, and K. S. W. Campbell. 1976. The Late Triassic molluscs, conodonts, and brachiopods of the kuta Formation, Papua New Guinea. Journal of Austrialian Geology and Geophysics 1:219-230 [D. Bottjer/N. Bonuso/N. Bonuso]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42524: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Nicole Bonuso on 31.07.2004

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