Sample 158128 - N20r - Locality 5: Early Pliocene - Late Pliocene, East Timor
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Globorotaliidae
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Globorotalia tumida tumida
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Globigerinidae
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Sphaeroidinella dehiscens immaturus
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Globorotaliidae
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Globorotalia tumida flexuosa
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Globigerinidae
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Sphaeroidinellopsis paenedehiscens
Blow 1969
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Sphaeroidinellopsis seminulina
(Schwager 1866)
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Sphaeroidinellopsis kochi
(Caudri 1934)
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Orbulina bilobata
(d'Orbigny 1846)
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Orbulina universa
d'Orbigny 1839
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Globigerina apertura
Cushman 1918
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Zeaglobigerina nepenthes
(Todd 1957)
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Globoquadrina venezuelana
(Hedberg 1937)
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Dentoglobigerina altispira
(Cushman and Jarvis 1936)
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Globigerinoides sp.
Cushman 1927
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Globigerinoides extremus
(Bolli and Bermudez 1965)
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Globigerinoides ruber
(d'Orbigny 1839)
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Globigerinoides conglobatus
(Brady 1879)
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Globigerinoides immaturus
(Le Roy 1939)
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Globigerinoides triloba
Reuss 1850
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Globigerinoides elongatus
(d'Orbigny 1826)
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Globigerinoides quadrilobatus
(d'Orbigny 1846)
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Globigerinoides obliquus
(Bolli 1957)
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Globigerinoides sacculifer
(Brady 1877)
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Globigerinella aequilateralis
(Brady 1879)
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Globigerinella obesa
(Bolli 1957)
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Globigerina bulloides
d'Orbigny 1826
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Globorotaliidae
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Menardella sp.
Bandy 1972
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Menardella multicamerata
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Globorotalia plesiotumida
(Blow and Banner 1965)
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Hirsutella scitula
(Brady 1882)
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Hirsutella margaritae
(Bolli and Bermudez 1965)
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Menardella limbata
(Fornasini 1902)
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Menardella menardii
(Parker et al. 1865)
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Truncorotalia crassaformis
(Galloway and Wissler 1927)
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Pulleniatina primalis
Banner and Blow 1967
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Pulleniatina praecursor
Banner and Blow 1967
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Pulleniatina obliquiloculata
(Parker and Jones 1865)
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Neogloboquadrina pseudopima
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Neogloboquadrina humerosa
(Takayanagi and Saito 1962)
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Neogloboquadrina dutertrei
(d'Orbigny 1839)
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Neogloboquadrina acostaensis
(Blow 1959)
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | East Timor |
Coordinates: | 8.6° South, 126.4° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 7.8° South, 128.8° East |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
Stage: | Zanclean - Piacenzian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
Key time interval: | Early Pliocene - Late Pliocene | Foram zone: | N20r |
Age range of interval: | 5.333 - 2.58 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | chalk |
Lithology description: Throughout the island, chalk and marl, in places containing tuffaceous material, form the basal part of the post-5.7 Ma succession (“Batu Putih” unit of van Bemmelen, 1949, Table 59; Carter et al.,1976, Fig. 5; but not of Charlton and Suharsono, 1990, p. 52) and are overlain by marl and mudstone with very slow sedimentation rates (Keep and Haig, 2010, Fig. 7). Foraminifera form almost all the sand fraction of the chalk and provide keys to interpreting the palaeobathymetry as well as the age. interbedded turbiditic sands and conglomerates (Viqueque Series of Grunau, 1956). The basal chalk represents pelagic carbonate ooze that accumulated at | |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 142981 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | R. McClees-Funinan, M. Uhen |
Created: | 2013-04-18 05:25:47 | Last modified: | 2013-04-17 14:25:47 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-04-18 05:25:47 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
46117. | D. Haig. 2012. Palaeobathymetric gradients across Timor during 5.7–3.3 Ma and implications for collision uplift. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (331-332)50-59 [M. Uhen/R. McClees-Funinan] |
Secondary references:
10457 | M. D. Uhen. 2004. Form, Function, and Anatomy of Dorudon atrox (Mammalia, Cetacea): An Archaeocete from the Middle to Late Eocene of Egypt. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 34:1-222 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |