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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Foraminifera indet. foram | |
Gastropoda | |
"Turritella cingulifera" = Turritella (Kurosioia) cingulifera
"Turritella cingulifera" = Turritella (Kurosioia) cingulifera Sowerby 1825 turret shell several specimens
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Bivalvia | |
Corbula monilis, Corbula solidula, "Corbula taitensis" = Corbula (Anisocorbula) taitensis, "Corbula cf. scaphoides" = Aloidis scaphoides
Corbula monilis clam
"Corbula cf. scaphoides" = Aloidis scaphoides Hinds 1843 clam | |
Placamen tiara Dillwyn 1817 venus clam | |
Glycymeris "sp. 1" Da Costa 1778 clam | |
Arcopsis (Arcopsis) caputavisensis Beets 1986 clam | |
Anadara (Anadara) sp. Gray 1847 ark
"Barbatia" sorongensis n. sp. clam
Trisidos tortuosa Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
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"Chlamys (Chlamys) senatoria" = Mimachlamys senatoria
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