Benteng West, ISS1.1, Salayar Island (Miocene of Indonesia)
Where: South Sulawesi, Indonesia (6.2° S, 120.4° E: paleocoordinates 5.8° S, 123.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Salayar Formation, Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; rudstone and grainstone
• intermediate reef slope, 10-15 m water depth
• moderately well sorted coral-cobble matrix-supported breccia and reefal rudstone, matrix is a fine- to medium-grained, calcareous, loosely consolidated grainstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: K. Bromfield. 2010. Evolutionary dynamics of Indo-Pacific reef corals throughout the Neogene. 1-269 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 124781: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.02.2012, edited by Mihaela Krause
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa | |
Goniastrea "sp. A" Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Echinopora "sp. A" Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Caulastrea "n. sp. A" Dana 1846 stony coral | |
Pavona cactus Forskal 1775 stony coral
Pavona explanulata Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Leptoseris "sp. C" Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral | |
Goniopora "sp. B" Blainville 1830 stony coral
Goniopora columna Dana 1846 stony coral
Goniopora planulata Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
Goniopora cf. norfolkensis Veron and Pichon 1982 stony coral | |
Echinophyllia robusta Gerth 1923 stony coral
Oxypora glabra Nemenzo 1959 stony coral
Lobophyllia hemprichii Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral | |
Montipora "n. sp. A" Blainville 1830 stony coral
Montipora pandolfii n. sp. Bromfield 2013 stony coral
Acropora "sp. C" Oken 1815 stony coral | |
Galaxea acrhelia Veron 2000 stony coral
Galaxea fascicularis Linnaeus 1767 stony coral
Galaxea paucisepta Claereboudt 1990 stony coral |