Biwak Poetain, Timor (Molengraaff coll) (Permian of Indonesia)

Where: Indonesia (9.5° S, 124.6° E: paleocoordinates 0.2° N, 116.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Permian (298.9 - 251.9 Ma)

• Mixed assemblage in tectonically-disrupted melange sediments. Possibly Bitauni Fauna.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collected by Molengraaff, Dutch Timor Expedition in 1910-1912

• Repository: Formerly Delft, ?now Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum–Naturalis, Leiden (NNM)

Primary reference: H. Gerth. 1922. Der palaeontologische Charakter der Anthozoën-fauna des Perm von Timor. Jaarboek van het Mijnwezen Nederlandsch Oost-Indie 49:1-32 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 39617: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Marcus Apel on 01.06.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Waagenophyllidae
Lonsdaleiastraea vinassai n. gen. n. sp. Gerth 1922 horn coral