Kendeng Mountains, Putjangan Beds: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Indonesia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Euphylliidae
Gyrosmilia diadema Umbgrove 1950
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylophora pocilloporoides Umbgrove 1950
Stylophora granulata Umbgrove 1950
Seriatopora micrommata Felix 1921
Seriatopora delicatula Felix 1921
Pocillopora jenkinsi Reuss 1867
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Alveopora daedalea (Forskal 1775)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae
Lobophyllia corymbosa (Forskal 1775)
Acanthastrea cf. hemprichii (Ehrenberg 1834)
Acanthastraea
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Rhizangiidae
Coenangia polygonalis Umbgrove 1950
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Favia speciosa (Dana 1846)
recombined as Dipsastraea speciosa
Cyphastrea serailia (Forskal 1775)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Oculinidae
Cyathohelia axillaris (Ellis and Solander 1786)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Dictyaraea anomala Reuss 1866
Goniopora stokesii
    = Goniopora stokesi Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851
Kiessling et al. 2011
Porites sp. Link 1807
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Fungiidae
Fungia fungites (Linnaeus 1758)
Fungia concinna Verrill 1864
Fungia actinodiscus Umbgrove 1950
Fungia inaequicostata Gerth 1925
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Pachyseris compacta Umbgrove 1950
Leptoseris sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849
Pavona clavus Dana 1846
Progyrosmilia regularis Umbgrove 1950
synonym of Pavona clavus
Cyathoseris lophiophora Felix 1921
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Trachyphylliidae
Antillophyllia constricta (Brueggemann 1877)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Oulastreidae
Oulastrea praecrispata Umbgrove 1950
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Dendrophyllia digitalis Felix 1920
Heteropsammia cochlea (Spengler 1781)
Balanophyllia oppenheimi Felix 1913
Balanophyllia complanata Gerth 1921
Endopachys grayi Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Leptastreidae
Leptastrea purpurea (Dana 1846)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Paracyathus sp. Edwards and Haime 1848
Paracyathus javana Umbgrove 1950
Paracyathus stokesii Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
Paracyathus nannodes Felix 1921
Heterocyathus aequicostatus Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
Acanthocyathus grayi Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
Acanthocyathus spinosa Umbgrove 1950
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Flabellum pavoninum Lesson 1831
Flabellum stokesii Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
recombined as Truncatoflabellum stokesii
Flabellum rubrum (Quoy and Gaimard 1833)
recombined as Monomyces rubrum
see common names

Geography
Country:Indonesia
Coordinates: 7.2° South, 112.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:7.3° South, 113.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Pucangan
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Pucangan (=Putjangan) Beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:perireef or subreef
Geology comments: "it is not a true reef fauna, but a biocoenosis which could withstand severe conditions of rapid sedimentation inimical to reef corals in general and unfavorable to the formation of a reef"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: collections by Geo Survey of Java.
Metadata
Database number:42739
Authorizer:M. Kosnik, W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Kosnik, U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-08-04 22:49:08 Last modified:2010-03-25 10:07:33
Access level:the public Released:2004-08-04 22:49:08
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11361. J. H. F. Umbgrove. 1950. Corals from the Putjangan beds (Lower Pleistocene) of Java. Journal of Paleontology 24(6):637-651 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]

Secondary references:

35169 W. Kiessling, C. Simpson, B. Beck and J. Pandolfi. 2011. Taxonomic vetting of Pleistocene coral occurrence data. [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]