Bontang, East Kalimantan, Rainy section,TF153 (Miocene to of Indonesia)

Where: Indonesia (0.0° N, 117.0° E: paleocoordinates 0.5° N, 119.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Burdigalian to Burdigalian (20.4 - 13.8 Ma)

• Early Langhian to Late Burdigalian age, 15.3-17.9 Ma.

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; argillaceous siliciclastic sediments

• yellowish clay-rich sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: NMNH

Primary reference: N. Santodomingo. 2014. Miocene reef-coral diversity of Indonesia: unlocking the murky origins of the Coral Triangle. UU Department of Earth Sciences [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/A. Lauchstedt]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 164775: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 16.12.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Echinopora" pelarangensis
"Echinopora" pelarangensis Gerth 1923 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylophora sp.
Stylophora sp. Schweigger 1819 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora elegans
Acropora elegans Milne Edwards 1860 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Dictyaraea sp.
Dictyaraea sp. Reuss 1867 stony coral