Cape Laundi, Sumba Island, reef complex IV-1 (Pleistocene of Indonesia)

Where: Indonesia (9.5° S, 120.2° E: paleocoordinates 9.5° S, 120.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. A. Pirazzoli, U. Radtke, W. S. Hantoro, C. Jouannic, C. T. Hoang, C. Causse, and M. Borel Best. 1993. A one million-year-long sequence of marine terraces on Sumba Island, Indonesia. Marine Geology 109:221-236 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 104747: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Platygyra daedalea Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Faviidae indet. Gregory 1900 stony coral