Where: Papua New Guinea (8.6° S, 146.4° E: paleocoordinates 11.3° S, 145.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From undescribed lithostratigraphy, hence stratigraphic relationships are unknown. AGE: Pliocene according to Chapman (1918), who states that a large percentage of taxa are found living in adjacent seas, but on the basis of new fossil taxa and faunal similarities with Indonesia, a Pliocene age is suggested, Dun (?) has previously stated a Pliocene or Pleistocene age. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From an unknown position with local section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, green sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Wade

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: A. Wade, and possibly Dun, 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 78263: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 31.01.2008

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