Mefa, southwest Buru (Jurassic of Indonesia)

Where: Indonesia (3.7° S, 126.5° E: paleocoordinates 21.4° N, 140.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Aucella Limestone Formation, Late/Upper Jurassic (161.5 - 145.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: red limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Krumbeck. 1923. Zur Kenntnis des Juras der Insel Timor: sowie des Aucellen-Horizontes von Seran und Buru. Palaeontologie von Timor 12:1-120 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 205695: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 18.10.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Rhynchonella mefaensis n. sp. Krumbeck 1923
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Terebratula sp. Müller 1776
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
"Inoceramus cf. haasti" = Retroceramus haasti
"Inoceramus cf. haasti" = Retroceramus haasti Hochstetter 1863 clam
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
"Aucella malayomaorica" = Malayomaorica malayomaorica
"Aucella malayomaorica" = Malayomaorica malayomaorica Krumbeck 1923 scallop