Where: Papua New Guinea (5.9° S, 144.9° E: paleocoordinates 38.6° S, 104.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Balimbu Formation, Sinemurian (199.3 - 190.8 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by F.E. Dekker 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 137279: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.12.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
? Paltechioceras sp. Buckman 1924 ammonite |