Where: Papua New Guinea (8.0° S, 145.4° E: paleocoordinates 13.5° S, 143.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From undescribed lithostratigraphy, hence stratigraphic relationships are unknown. AGE: Late Miocene according to Chapman (1918). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the ferruginous mudstone at this section, which is not described in detail.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, green marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Wade

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: A. Wade, early 1910's. REPOSITORY: National Museum of Australia.

Primary reference: F. Chapman. 1918. A report on a collection of Cainozoic fossils from the oil-fields of Papua. Bulletin of the Territory of Papua 5:1-17 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 78307: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.02.2008

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