Hulung, Ambon Island (Pleistocene to of Indonesia)

Where: Indonesia (3.7° S, 128.2° E: paleocoordinates 3.5° S, 128.7° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Pleistocene to Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.1 Ma)

• "lower or even middle Pleistocene"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. J. Boekschoten, M. Borel Best, A. Oosterbaan and F. M. Molenkamp. 1989. Past corals and recent reefs in Indonesia. Netherlands Journal of Sea Research 23(2):117-122 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 104656: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.02.2011

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Euphylliidae
Galaxea sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
Euphyllia cf. glabrescens Chamisso and Eysenhardt 1821 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Coeloseris mayeri Vaughan 1918 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Fungiidae
Fungia sp. Lamarck 1801 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites cf. lutea Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
Goniopora cf. stokesi Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Favites cf. abdita Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
Cyphastrea serailia Forskal 1775 stony coral
Goniastrea retiformis Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Platygyra lamellina Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Madracis cf. kirbyi Veron and Pichon 1976 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Leptastreidae
Leptastrea aff. transversa Klunzinger 1879 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae
Symphyllia radians Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral