Nanggulan, Yogyakarta, Java (Eocene of Indonesia)

Also known as Reef 3592

Where: Indonesia (7.8° S, 110.2° E: paleocoordinates 4.6° S, 117.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone and lithified marl

• lenses of coral limestones and foraminiferal marls in volcanic tuff beds

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. Gerth. 1933. Neue Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Korallenfauna des Tertiärs von Java. I: Die Korallen des Eocen und des älteren Neogen [The Tertiary coral fauna of Java. I: Eocene and Lower Neogene corals]. Wetenschappelijke Mededeelingen 25:1-45 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71057: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.04.2007, edited by Joanna Wolfe

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Florideophyceae
 Hapalidiales - Corallinophycidae
Lithothamnion sp. Heydrich 1897
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Agathiphylliidae
"Cyatomorpha sp." = Agathiphyllia
"Cyatomorpha sp." = Agathiphyllia Reuss 1864 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Goniopora cf. planulata Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Monticulastraea cf. insignis Duncan 1880 stony coral
"Dasyphyllia cf. gemmans" = Caulastrea stony coral
Cyphastrea crassa Gerth 1923 stony coral
Cyphastrea cf. monticulifera Felix 1921 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Solenastrea semarangensis Gerth 1921 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Diploastraeidae
Diploastrea heliopora Lamarck 1816 stony coral
var. borneensis
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
"Orbicella tabulata" = Montastrea tabulata
"Orbicella tabulata" = Montastrea tabulata Martin 1880 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Leptastreidae
Leptastrea cf. purpurea Dana 1846 stony coral
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Martinocarcinidae
Martinocarcinus ickeae Bohm 1922 crab