ISS4.1, Salayar Island (Pleistocene of Indonesia)

Where: South Sulawesi, Indonesia (6.1° S, 120.5° E: paleocoordinates 6.0° S, 121.6° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• 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; reef rocks

• intermediate reef slope, 10-15 m water depth

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 124880: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.02.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Euphylliidae
Galaxea acrhelia, Galaxea astreata
Galaxea acrhelia Veron 2000 stony coral
Galaxea astreata Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Diploastraeidae
Diploastrea heliopora
Diploastrea heliopora Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Plerogyridae
"Parasimplastrea simplicitexta" = Blastomussa simplicitexta
"Parasimplastrea simplicitexta" = Blastomussa simplicitexta Umbgrove 1942 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Platygyra singularis
Platygyra singularis Martin 1880 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Montipora "n. sp. B"
Montipora "n. sp. B" Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Fungiidae
Fungia "sp. A", Fungia "sp. B", Fungia "sp. C", Fungia "sp. D", Fungia "sp. E", Fungia "sp. F"
Fungia "sp. A" Lamarck 1801 stony coral
Fungia "sp. B" Lamarck 1801 stony coral
Fungia (?Ctenactis)
Fungia "sp. C" Lamarck 1801 stony coral
Fungia "sp. D" Lamarck 1801 stony coral
Fungia "sp. E" Lamarck 1801 stony coral
Fungia "sp. F" Lamarck 1801 stony coral
Fungia (?Cycloseris)
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Goniopora cf. norfolkensis, Porites evermanni
Goniopora cf. norfolkensis Veron and Pichon 1982 stony coral
Porites evermanni Vaughan 1907 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae
Acanthastrea hillae
Acanthastrea hillae Wells 1955 stony coral