Heights of Silungkang, Sumatra (Permian to of Indonesia)

Where: Indonesia (0.7° S, 100.8° E: paleocoordinates 28.7° S, 115.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kubergandian to Kubergandian (279.8 - 267.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• pure limestones in thick lenses in shales and volcanic rocks

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: H. Fontaine. 1983. Some Permian corals from the Highland of Padang, Sumatra, Indonesia. Publication of the Geological Research and Development Centre, Paleontology Series 4:1-31 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75572: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.10.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• bryozoans and gastropods reported to be present, but not listed
unclassified
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Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Waagenophyllidae
"Pavastehphyllum (Thomasiphyllum) sp." = Thomasiphyllum, Pavastehphyllum (Pavastehphyllum) sp.
"Pavastehphyllum (Thomasiphyllum) sp." = Thomasiphyllum Minato and Kato 1965 horn coral
Pavastehphyllum (Pavastehphyllum) sp. Minato and Kato 1965 horn coral
Demospongiae
 Agelasida - Preperonidellidae
Hikorocodium sp. Endo 1951 demosponge
Shamovella
  -
"Tubiphytes obscurus" = Shamovella obscura
"Tubiphytes obscurus" = Shamovella obscura Maslov 1956
Ulvophyceae
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Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Gyroporella sp. Gümbel 1872
Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Schubertellidae
Neofusulinella sp. Deprat 1912
 Fusulinoidea - Schwagerinidae
? Pseudofusulina sp. Dunbar and Skinner 1931
 Fusulinina - Tuberitinidae
 Fusulinina - Archaesphaeridae
Diplosphaerina sp. Derville 1952
Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Nodosariidae indet. Ehrenberg 1838