Where: Papua New Guinea (6.0° S, 145.0° E: paleocoordinates 35.9° S, 136.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• Age inferred by Matsumoto & Skwarko 1993
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by G.A.V. Stanley in 1949
• Repository: Adelaide University Geology Department. Specimens presented to a party led by G.A.V. Stanley in 1949.
Primary reference: M. F. Glaessner. 1958. New Cretaceous fossils from New Guinea, with a contribution on a new ammonite genus. Records of the South Australian Museum 13:199-226 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 174838: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.11.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Chimbuites sinuosocostatus n. gen. n. sp.
Chimbuites sinuosocostatus n. gen. n. sp. Casey and Glaessner 1958 ammonite | |
Cymatoceras hendersoni Etheridge 1892 nautiloid | |
Bivalvia | |
Pleuromya cuneata n. sp.
Pleuromya cuneata n. sp. Glaessner 1958 clam |