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