ammonites
Kuta, Mount Hagen (Triassic of Papua New Guinea)

Also known as Reef 3886

Where: Papua New Guinea (5.9° S, 144.3° E: paleocoordinates 36.0° S, 107.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kuta Formation, Sevatian (212.0 - 205.6 Ma)

• Norian part of reef complex

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: E. Kristan-Tollmann. 1990. Rhät-Foraminiferen aus dem Kuta-Kalk des Gurumugl-Riffes in Zentral-Papua/Neuguinea [Rhaetian foraminifers from the Kuta Limestone of the Gurumugl Reef in central Papua New Guinea]. Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geologischen Gesellschaft 82:211-289 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/W. Kiessling] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 86957: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 26.02.2009