Upper Menkrawit beds - Kalimantan (Miocene of Indonesia)

Where: Indonesia (1.5° N, 116.5° E: paleocoordinates 1.6° N, 117.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Unknown relationship to other units, presumably lies above "Lower Menkrawit Beds". AGE: Late Miocene.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

• ENVIRONMENT: Environmental data not reported in text.
• LITHOLOGY: Lithologic and lithification data not reported in text.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Presumably K. Martin. REPOSITORY: Natt. Natuurhist. Mus., Leiden and GRDC Coll., Bandung (Indonesia).

Primary reference: S. K. Skwarko. 1994. Mollusca in Indonesian Cenozoic biostratigraphy (a computerised compilation) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 70120: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 18.03.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COMPLETENESS: Exhaustive for Mollusca. Other groups not treated by primary reference. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative and relatively modern nomenclature applied. Nomenclature revised by van den Hoek et al. (2002) and Hendy (2007).
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Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
"Terebralia (Terebralia) kelirensis" = Clypeomorus kelirensis
"Terebralia (Terebralia) kelirensis" = Clypeomorus kelirensis Martin 1917 cerith snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
"Turritella (Haustator) talarensis" = Haustator
"Turritella (Haustator) talarensis" = Haustator turret shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Natica (Natica) vitellus
Natica (Natica) vitellus Linnaeus 1758 moon snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
"Strombus (Strombus) preoccupatus" = Persististrombus preoccupatus
"Strombus (Strombus) preoccupatus" = Persististrombus preoccupatus Finlay 1927 true conch
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
"Erosaria (Ravitrona) helvola" = Cypraea (Erosaria) helvola, "Erosaria (Ravitrona) labrolineata" = Erosaria labrolineata
"Erosaria (Ravitrona) helvola" = Cypraea (Erosaria) helvola Linnaeus 1758 cowry
SUBSPECIES: E. (R.) helvola helvola
"Erosaria (Ravitrona) labrolineata" = Erosaria labrolineata Gaskoin 1849 cowry
SUBSPECIES: E. (R.) labrolineata labrolineata