Bontang, East Kalimantan, TF107 (Miocene of Indonesia)

Where: Indonesia (0.0° N, 117.0° E: paleocoordinates 0.1° N, 117.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• 9.4-9.8 Ma (early Tortonian)

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; silty siliciclastic sediments

• orange silty sediments interbedding with platy colonies of Porites in an environment that has been interpreted as a small patch reef influenced by siliciclastic input (Renema et al., in press).

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: NMNH

Primary reference: N. Santodomingo. 2014. Miocene reef-coral diversity of Indonesia: unlocking the murky origins of the Coral Triangle. UU Department of Earth Sciences [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/A. Lauchstedt]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 164750: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 15.12.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora fennemai Gerth 1921 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral