Island of Nias - Early Miocene [Checklist of Skwarko, 1994] (Miocene of Indonesia)

Where: Indonesia (1.1° N, 97.6° E: paleocoordinates 3.9° S, 105.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unknown unit. Unknown relationship to other units. AGE: Early Miocene.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

• ENVIRONMENT: Environmental data not reported in text.
• LITHOLOGY: Lithologic and lithification data not reported in text.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Presumably van der Vlerk (1931). REPOSITORY: Natt. Natuurhist. Mus., Leiden and GRDC Coll., Bandung (Indonesia).

Primary reference: S. K. Skwarko. 1994. Mollusca in Indonesian Cenozoic biostratigraphy (a computerised compilation) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 70124: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 18.03.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COMPLETENESS: Exhaustive for Mollusca. Other groups not treated by primary reference. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative and relatively modern nomenclature applied. Nomenclature revised by van den Hoek et al. (2002) and Hendy (2007).
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Gastropoda
 Opisthobranchia - Haminoeidae
Atys sp.
Atys sp. Montfort 1810 snail
 Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Cancellaria prophylactica
 Neogastropoda - Clavatulidae
"Turricula (Surcula) waringinensis" = Turricula
"Turricula (Surcula) waringinensis" = Turricula snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
Rimella pollii
Rimella pollii true conch
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
"Cypraea subelongata" = Zonarina subelongata
"Cypraea subelongata" = Zonarina subelongata d'Orbigny 1852 cowry