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

Also known as Sangkulirang, Locality B, 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)

• Layer 2 (B) is lower than layer 1 (Bb), but it's not specified how much lower

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous claystone

• calcareous clays

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 42385: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 28.07.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell
Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula solidula, "Corbula scaphoides" = Aloidis scaphoides
"Corbula scaphoides" = Aloidis scaphoides Hinds 1843 clam
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Vermetidae
? Vermetus sp. Daudin 1800 worm shell
 Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Pyrene sp. Röding 1798 snail
 Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Cancellaria sp. Lamarck 1799 snail
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell
juvenile
 Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
Clavus "sp. A" Monfort 1810 snail
Clavus "sp. C" Monfort 1810 snail
Clavus "sp. D" Monfort 1810 snail
Clavus sp. Monfort 1810 snail
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Cerithium sp. Bruguière 1789 cerith snail
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
 Seguenzioidea - Eucyclidae
Euchelus (Euchelus) atratus Gmelin 1791 snail