Benteng West, ISS1.1, Salayar Island: Messinian, Indonesia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae
Oxypora glabra Nemenzo 1959
Lobophyllia hemprichii (Ehrenberg 1834)
Echinophyllia robusta Gerth 1923
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Montipora informal n. sp. A
Montipora pandolfii n. sp. Bromfield 2013
Bromfield 2013
Acropora informal sp. C
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Euphylliidae
Galaxea paucisepta Claereboudt 1990
Galaxea acrhelia Veron 2000
Galaxea fascicularis (Linnaeus 1767)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Echinopora informal sp. A
Caulastrea informal n. sp. A
Goniastrea informal sp. A
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Leptoseris informal sp. C
Pavona cactus (Forskal 1775)
Pavona explanulata (Lamarck 1816)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Goniopora informal sp. B
Goniopora planulata (Ehrenberg 1834)
Goniopora cf. norfolkensis Veron and Pichon 1982
Goniopora columna Dana 1846
see common names

Geography
Country:Indonesia State/province:South Sulawesi
Coordinates: 6.2° South, 120.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:5.8° South, 123.8° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Messinian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Messinian
Age range of interval: 7.246 - 5.333 m.y. ago
Age estimate: 5.8 Ma (Sr isotope)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Salayar
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: rudstone
Secondary lithology: grainstone
Lithology description: moderately well sorted coral-cobble matrix-supported breccia and reefal rudstone, matrix is a fine- to medium-grained, calcareous, loosely consolidated grainstone
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Geology comments: intermediate reef slope, 10-15 m water depth
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:124781
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel, M. Krause
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-02-24 01:02:24 Last modified:2012-02-23 08:15:34
Access level:authorizer only Released:2013-02-24 01:02:24
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

40384. K. Bromfield. 2010. Evolutionary dynamics of Indo-Pacific reef corals throughout the Neogene. 1-269 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

50535 K. Bromfield. 2013. Neogene Corals from the Indo-Pacific: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Fiji. Bulletins of American Paleontology 387 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]