Nias Island E: Pliocene, Indonesia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Echinopora lamellosa (Esper 1795)
Goniastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
Platygyra cf. lamellina (Ehrenberg 1834)
Favia cf. pallida (Dana 1846)
recombined as Dipsastraea pallida
Cyphastrea microphthalma (Lamarck 1816)
Cyphastrea serailia (Forskal 1775)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Seriatopora cf. hystrix Dana 1846
Stylocoeniella guentheri (Bassett-Smith 1890)
Pocillopora madreporacea (Lamarck 1816)
Stylophora pistillata (Esper 1797)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Montipora sp. Blainville 1830
see common names

Geography
Country:Indonesia
Coordinates: 1.1° North, 97.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:0.8° South, 99.3° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pliocene
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 2.58800 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Nias
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: probably from the upper Nias Beds (Pliocene) with possibly some admixture of Pleistocene reef terrace fossils
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:perireef or subreef
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:108776
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-05-04 18:56:28 Last modified:2011-05-04 04:56:28
Access level:the public Released:2011-05-04 18:56:28
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

35039. G. J. Boekschoten, M. Borel Best, A. Oosterbaan and F. M. Molenkamp. 1989. Past corals and recent reefs in Indonesia. Netherlands Journal of Sea Research 23(2):117-122 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]