Sangkulirang, Locality A, Lower Gelingseh Beds (Miocene of Indonesia)

Also known as Sangkulirang, Locality A, Lower Gelingseh Beds, Borneo

Where: Borneo, Indonesia (1.0° N, 118.0° E: paleocoordinates 1.1° N, 118.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gelingseh Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• lower part of the Gelingseh Beds at the Gr. Batoe-anticline

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; argillaceous marl

• A clayish marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: specimens collected by L. M. R. Rutten and housed at the Rijksmuseum van Geologie en Mineralogie

Primary reference: C. Beets. 1986. Molluscan fauna of the Lower Gelingseh Beds s. str. , Sangkulirang area, Kalimantan timur (East Borneo). Scripta Geologica 82:1-82 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42381: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 28.07.2004

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Taxonomic list

Scaphopoda
 Gadilida - Gadilidae
Siphonodentalium sp. Sars 1859 tusk shell
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium spp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell
Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
"Lucina" sp. Bruguière 1797 clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
"Corbula socialis" = Corbula (Anisocorbula) socialis Martin 1879 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Laevicardium spp. Swainson 1840 cockle
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Pitar sp. Römer 1857 venus clam
? Dosinia sp. Scopoli 1777 venus clam
? Circe spp. Schumacher 1817 venus clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Amussium sp." = Amusium
"Amussium sp." = Amusium Röding 1798 scallop
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
 Arcida - Arcidae
Arca sp. Linnaeus 1758 ark
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Pyrene sp. Röding 1798 snail
 Neogastropoda - Olividae
Oliva sp. Bruguière 1789 olive snail
 Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
Clavus "sp. E" Monfort 1810 snail
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
? Cerithium sp. Bruguière 1789 cerith snail
 Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
? Cylichna sp. Lovén 1846 snail
Scaphander sp. Monfort 1810 snail