Mota Talau River (Pliocene of Indonesia)

Where: East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia (9.1° S, 124.9° E: paleocoordinates 8.5° S, 127.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; limestone and marl

• coral limestones and marls

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Felix. 1915. Jungtertiäre und quartäre Anthozoen von Timor und Obi, 1. Teil [Upper Tertiary and Quarternary Anthozoa from Timor and Obi, part 1]. Paläontologie von Timor 2:3-45 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 109650: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.05.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Dasyphyllia brevicaulis n. sp." = Caulastrea brevicaulis, "Favia amplior" = Dipsastraea pallida
"Dasyphyllia brevicaulis n. sp." = Caulastrea brevicaulis Felix 1915 stony coral
"Favia amplior" = Dipsastraea pallida Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Favia okeni
Favia okeni Milne-Edwards and Haime 1857 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea crenulata
Siderastrea crenulata Goldfuss 1826 stony coral