Sungei Taba (Triassic of Malaysia)

Where: Pahang, Malaysia (3.9° N, 101.9° E: paleocoordinates 0.3° N, 97.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

• "friable, pink marly shale... in two thin bands separated by 20 feet of unfossiliferous dark green gritty shale" (Cox 1936)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by E. S. Willbourn; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: L. R. Cox. 1936. On a fossiliferous Upper Triassic shale from Pahang, Federated Malay States. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 17(98):213-221 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 206587: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 20.11.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Grammatodon malayensis n. sp. Cox 1936 clam
BMNH L.63425 (holotype)
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
"Plicatula (Pseudoplacunopsis) cf. carinata" = Plicatula carinata
"Plicatula (Pseudoplacunopsis) cf. carinata" = Plicatula carinata Healey 1908 scallop
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
"Hoernesia cf. bipartita" = Gervillia bipartita, Hoernesia willbourni n. sp., Langsonella elongata
"Hoernesia cf. bipartita" = Gervillia bipartita Merian 1853 oyster
Hoernesia willbourni n. sp. Cox 1936 oyster
BMNH L.63440 (holotype)
Langsonella elongata Mansuy 1919 oyster
 Ostreida - Cassianellidae
? Cassianella sp. Beyrich 1862 oyster
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"Modiolus cf. raiblianus" = Modiola raibliana, Modiolus raubensis n. sp.
"Modiolus cf. raiblianus" = Modiola raibliana Bittner 1895 mussel
Modiolus raubensis n. sp. Cox 1936 mussel
BMNH L.63430 (holotype)
 Carditida - Myophoricardiidae
Myophoricardium cf. lineatum von Wöhrmann 1889 clam
 Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
Myophoria cf. chenopus Laube 1865 clam
Myophoria cf. harpa Munster 1837 clam