Sangatta, East Kalimantan, TF516 (Miocene of Indonesia)

Where: Indonesia (0.0° N, 117.0° E: paleocoordinates 0.1° N, 117.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• 8.9-9.3 Ma

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; sandstone

• orange fine-sand sediment matrix and abundant large massive corals of the genera Dipsastraea, Diploastrea, Cyphastrea, and Favites, and others, with colonies up to 1 m in diameter. This palaeoenvironment has been interpreted as a well-lit reef environment that favoured coral development. Abundant branching corals of the genera Porites, Goniopora, Seriatopora, and Stylophora, and a few specimens of Isopora brueggemanni were also present.

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 164753: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 15.12.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
 Rotaliacea - Rotaliidae
 Asterigerinacea - Amphisteginidae
Amphistegina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Alveolinidae
 Miliolida - Soritidae
Foraminifera
 Rotalioidea - Elphidiidae
Elphidium sp. Monfort 1808
Cellanthus sp. Montfort 1808
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Favites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Dipsastraea sp. de Blainville 1830 stony coral
Cyphastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Goniopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Seriatopora sp. Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Stylophora sp. Schweigger 1819 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Isopora brueggemanni Brook 1893 stony coral
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
Acropora florida Dana 1846 stony coral
Acropora horrida Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Diploastraeidae
Diploastrea sp. Matthai 1914 stony coral
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Gourmya sp. Fischer 1884 cerith snail