Tutong Road, S.5548 (Miocene of Brunei Darussalam)

Where: Brunei Darussalam (4.9° N, 114.8° E: paleocoordinates 4.8° N, 115.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Miri Formation (Belait Group), Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• Assigned to Pliocene by Morris & Collins, but to the late Miocene by Roslim et al. (2020)

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified sandstone

• "Alterations of clays, clay sands and sandstones. More arenaceous with rapid and less regular alterations."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: S. F. Morris and J. S. H. Collins. 1991. Neogene crabs from Brunei, Sabah, and Sarawak. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology 47(1):1-33 [C. Schweitzer/L. Baltzly/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 173589: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Lerin Baltzly on 03.10.2015, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Galenidae
Galene stipata Morris and Collins 1991 crab
 Decapoda - Parthenopidae
"Parthenope (Rhinolambrus) sublitoralis n. sp." = Rhinolambrus sublitoralis
"Parthenope (Rhinolambrus) sublitoralis n. sp." = Rhinolambrus sublitoralis Morris and Collins 1991 crab
 Decapoda - Dorippidae
"Heikea tuberculata n. sp." = Heikeopsis tuberculata
"Heikea tuberculata n. sp." = Heikeopsis tuberculata Morris and Collins 1991 crab
Dorippe (Dorippe) frascone n. ssp. tuberculata
 Decapoda - Calappidae
Calappa sexaspinosa n. sp. Morris and Collins 1991 box crab
 Decapoda - Iphiculidae
Iphiculus miriensis n. sp. Morris and Collins 1991 crab
 Decapoda - Leucosiidae
Nucia borneoensis n. sp. Morris and Collins 1991 crab
Philyra granulosa n. sp. Morris and Collins 1991 crab
Myra subcarinata n. sp. Morris and Collins 1991 crab
Myra trispinosa n. sp. Morris and Collins 1991 crab
Leucosia serenei n. sp. Morris and Collins 1991 crab
Leucosia tutongensis Morris and Collins 1991 crab
 Decapoda - Portunidae
Portunus woodwardi n. sp. Morris and Collins 1991 swimming crab