Toto, ISS3.2, Salayar Island (Pleistocene of Indonesia)

Where: South Sulawesi, Indonesia (5.9° S, 120.5° E: paleocoordinates 5.8° S, 121.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Salayar Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; framestone and sandy floatstone

• intermediate reef slope, 10-15 m water depth
• coral pebble to cobble conglomerate framestone in a friable matrix of coarse sandy floatstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K. Bromfield. 2010. Evolutionary dynamics of Indo-Pacific reef corals throughout the Neogene. 1-269 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 124789: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.02.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Plesiastreidae
Plesiastrea versipora Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Platygyra phrygia" = Leptoria phrygia, "Montastrea curta" = Astrea curta, Favites acuticollis, Favites pentagona
"Platygyra phrygia" = Leptoria phrygia Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
"Montastrea curta" = Astrea curta Dana 1846 stony coral
Favites acuticollis Ortmann 1889 stony coral
Favites pentagona Esper 1794 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Goniopora stutchburyi Wells 1955 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Leptastreidae
Leptastrea purpurea Dana 1846 stony coral