Where: Northern Territory, Australia (12.3° S, 131.0° E: paleocoordinates 41.6° S, 116.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wangarlu Mudstone Formation (Bathurst Island Group), Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• basal interval of the Wangarlu Mudstone; 'considered as an isochronous assemblage, the Wangarlu Mudstone fauna would be best referred to the auritus Subzone. However, its contents were probably derived from a range of stratigraphic horizons which may well have spanned the varicosum and auritus Subzones and perhaps even extended into the lower part of the dispar Zone.'

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified ironstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the UQ

• Museum repositories: Australian Museum (AM), Museum of Viktoria (MV), University of Queensalnd (UQ) and Western Australian Museum (WAM)

Primary reference: R. A. Henderson. 1990. Late Albian ammonites from the Northern Territory, Australia. Alcheringa 14:109-148 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 70283: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 20.03.2007

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