Sangkulirang, Locality Bb, Lower Gelingseh Beds (Miocene of Indonesia)

Also known as Sangkulirang, Locality Bb, Lower Gelingseh Beds, Borneo

Where: Borneo, Indonesia (1.0° N, 118.0° E: paleocoordinates 1.1° N, 118.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Gelingseh Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• Layer 2 (B) is lower than layer 1 (Bb), but it's not specified how much lower; Lower Gelingseh Beds

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous claystone

• calcareous clays

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: specimens collected by L. M. R. Rutten and housed at the Rijksmuseum van Geologie en Mineralogie

Primary reference: C. Beets. 1986. Molluscan fauna of the Lower Gelingseh Beds s. str. , Sangkulirang area, Kalimantan timur (East Borneo). Scripta Geologica 82:1-82 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42390: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 28.07.2004

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
"Corbula scaphoides" = Aloidis scaphoides
"Corbula scaphoides" = Aloidis scaphoides Hinds 1843 clam
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Clanculus (Clanculus) gemmulifer, "Trochus (Trochus) maculatus" = Trochus maculatus
"Trochus (Trochus) maculatus" = Trochus maculatus Linnaeus 1758 top snail
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Chicoreus "sp. 4" Monfort 1810 murex snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
? Strombus (? Doxander) sp. Iredale 1931 conch
Rimella sp. Agassiz 1840 true conch