Where: Papua New Guinea (5.6° S, 144.9° E: paleocoordinates 35.0° S, 122.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Jimi Formation, Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• Age originally given as "Carnian-Norian" but ammonoid Sirenites is more characteristically Carnian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by D.B. Dow in 1962

• Repository: Commonwealth Palaeontology Collection

Primary reference: S. K. Skwarko. 1967. First Upper Triassic and ? Lower Jurassic marine Mollusca from New Guinea. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 75:39-84 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 137269: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.12.2012

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