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

Also known as Locality 149; Sangkulirang, Locality D, 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 Gelingseh Beds

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous claystone

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 42387: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 28.07.2004

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Taxonomic list

Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell
Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
"Corbula socialis" = Corbula (Anisocorbula) socialis
"Corbula socialis" = Corbula (Anisocorbula) socialis Martin 1879 clam
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
Clavus "sp. F" Monfort 1810 snail
 Neogastropoda - Costellariidae
Vexillum (Costellaria) spp. Swainson 1840 ribbed mitre
 Trochoidea - Trochidae