Where: New Guinea, Indonesia (0.9° S, 131.3° E: paleocoordinates 3.5° S, 131.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Jef Lio Member (Klasaman Formation), Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• the thickness of this member is 50 m, the level from which the fossils were collected is approx. 10 m from the base (an inference made from the strat column)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; fine-grained, argillaceous, calcareous sandstone and carbonaceous conglomerate

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: collected by J. B. Wooley in 1929/1930

Primary reference: C. Beets. 1986. Neogene Mollusca from the Vogelkop (Bird's Head Peninsula), West Irian, New Guinea. Scripta Geologica 82:101-134 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42399: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 28.07.2004

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