Also known as FVL-25, Sompoh, Sompo
Where: Sulawesi, Indonesia (4.3° S, 120.0° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 4.4° S, 120.6° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Beru Member (Walanae Formation), Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; conglomerate and sandstone
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 93546: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 22.01.2010
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
""Elephas" celebensis" = Archidiskodon celebensis, Stegodon sompoensis
""Elephas" celebensis" = Archidiskodon celebensis Hooijer 1949 mammoth
Stegodon sompoensis Hooijer 1964 elephant | |
Reptilia | |
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian | |
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle | |
Geochelone sp. Fitzinger 1835 turtle | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Elasmobranchii indet. Bonaparte 1838 elasmobranch |