Bontang Garden (Miocene of Indonesia)

Where: Indonesia (0.3° N, 117.7° E: paleocoordinates 0.4° N, 118.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; cherty/siliceous floatstone and packstone

• micritic bioclastic float to packstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: W. Renema, V. Warter, V. Novak, J. R. Young, N. Marshall and F. Hasibuan. 2015. Ages of Miocene Fossil Localities In The Northern Kutai Basin (east Kalimantan, Indonesia). Palaios 30:26-39 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/O. Alfaro]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 168772: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 29.04.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylophora sp. Schweigger 1819 stony coral
Seriatopora sp. Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Catinaster
  -
Umbilicosphaera
  -
Coccolithophyceae
 Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae
Pontosphaera sp. Lohmann 1961
  -
Sphenolithus moriformis Bronnimann and Stradner 1960
Reticulofenestra
  -
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812
Foraminifera
 Biokovinacea - Charentiidae
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
 Rotaliacea - Rotaliidae
 Orbitoidacea - Lepidocyclinidae
"Nephrolepidina rutteni" = Lepidocyclina (Nephrolepidina)
"Nephrolepidina rutteni" = Lepidocyclina (Nephrolepidina)
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Alveolinidae
 Miliolida - Soritidae
Foraminifera
 Rotalioidea - Elphidiidae
Cellanthus sp. Montfort 1808