Locality 187, Strickland River (Cretaceous of Papua New Guinea)

Where: Papua New Guinea (5.6° S, 142.2° E: paleocoordinates 35.4° S, 133.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ieru Formation, Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• "Cenomanian, probably middle Cenomanian"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Commonwealth Palaeontology Collection, Canberra (CPC)

Primary reference: T. Matsumoto and S. K. Skwarko. 1991. Ammonites of the Cretaceous Ieru Formation, western Papua New Guinea. BMR Journal of Australian Geology & Geophysics 12:245-262 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 177072: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.03.2016

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Pachydesmoceras sp. Spath 1922 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
Chimbuites aff. mirindowensis Wright 1963 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Calycoceras (Newboldiceras) cf. orientale Matsumoto et al. 1957 ammonite
Calycoceras (Newboldiceras) annulatum Collignon 1964 ammonite