Also known as FVL 24
Where: Sulawesi, Indonesia (4.4° S, 120.0° E: paleocoordinates 4.3° S, 121.0° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Beru Member (Walane Formation), Late/Upper Pliocene to Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: G. D. van den Bergh. 1999. The Late Neogene elephantoid-bearing faunas of Indonesia and their palaeozoogeographic implications. A study of the terrestrial faunal succession of Sulawesi, Flores and Java, including evidence for early hominid dispersal east of Wallace's Line. Scripta Geologica 117:1-419 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 93525: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 20.01.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Teredinidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 clam | |
Mammalia | |
Stegodon sompoensis, ""Elephas" celebensis" = Archidiskodon celebensis
Stegodon sompoensis Hooijer 1964 elephant
""Elephas" celebensis" = Archidiskodon celebensis Hooijer 1949 mammoth | |
Reptilia | |
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle | |
Geochelone sp. Fitzinger 1835 turtle | |
Gavialis sp. Oppel 1811 gharial | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Elasmobranchii indet. Bonaparte 1838 elasmobranch |