Kapan, Timor (Triassic of Indonesia)

Where: Indonesia (9.7° S, 124.3° E: paleocoordinates 12.0° N, 119.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Meekoceras timorense ammonoid zone, Cephalopod Limestone Formation, Smithian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• Age described as Early Triassic, assumed Smithian given age of other collections containing M. timorense

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: yellow limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Wanner. 1931. De stratigraphie van Nederlandsch Oost-Indie. 19. Mesozoikum. Leidsche Geologische Mededeelingen 5:567-610 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 204263: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 04.09.2019

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Hedenstroemiidae
Pseudosageceras multilobatum Noetling 1905 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Flemingitidae
Flemingites timorensis n. sp. Wanner 1911 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Proptychitidae
"Meekoceras timorense n. sp." = Clypeoceras timorense, "Meekoceras indoaustralicum n. sp." = Prionolobus indoaustralicus
"Meekoceras timorense n. sp." = Clypeoceras timorense Wanner 1911 ceratite
"Meekoceras indoaustralicum n. sp." = Prionolobus indoaustralicus Wanner 1911 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Arctoceratidae
"Meekoceras jolinkense" = Submeekoceras mushbachanum
"Meekoceras jolinkense" = Submeekoceras mushbachanum White 1879 ceratite