Coo, Java (Miocene of Indonesia)

Where: Indonesia (6.6° S, 106.3° E: paleocoordinates 7.0° S, 108.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

• Chitani's unit II

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

• unit II: shales and limestones; coral sample from limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. Yabe and M. Eguchi. 1941. On some simple corals from the Neogene of Java. Proceedings of the Imperial Academy Tokyo 17(7):269-273 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92582: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.11.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Oculinidae
Bantamia gerthi n. gen. n. sp.
Bantamia gerthi n. gen. n. sp. Yabe and Eguchi 1943 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
Indosmilia bantamensis n. sp. Yabe and Eguchi 1941 stony coral