Fatu Seinaam, Noil Besi Valley (Triassic of Indonesia)

Where: Timor, Indonesia (9.7° S, 124.2° E: paleocoordinates 17.4° N, 127.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Fatu Formation, Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Molengraaff

Primary reference: L. Krumbeck. 1921. Die Brachiopoden, Lamellibranchiaten und Gastropoden der Trias von Timor I. Palaeontologie Von Timor 10(17):1-142 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 205283: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 10.10.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Demospongiae
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Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Loxonematidae
Loxonema aff. fusca Koken 1900 snail
 Heterostropha - Anoptychiidae
Loxonema aff. vittata Koken 1900 snail
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula aff. expansa Wissmann 1841 nut clam
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Protocardia (Isocyprina) timorensis n. sp. Krumbeck 1924 clam
 Cardiida - Palaeocarditidae
Palaeocardita buruca Boehm 1906 clam
 Carditida - Myophoricardiidae
? Myophoriopis sp. von Wöhrmann 1889 clam
 Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
"Myophoria aff. decussata" = Gruenewaldia decussata
"Myophoria aff. decussata" = Gruenewaldia decussata Munster 1838 clam
 Ostreida - Cassianellidae
Cassianella aff. subeuglypha Krumbeck 1913 oyster
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pecten (Aequipecten) seinaamensis n. sp. Krumbeck 1924 scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Pecten (Entolium) decoratiformis n. sp. Krumbeck 1924 scallop
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell