Tarakan Island, Borneo (Pleistocene of Indonesia)

Where: East Kalimantan, Indonesia (3.3° N, 117.6° E: paleocoordinates 3.4° N, 117.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• Pleistocene?

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. Gerth. 1923. Die Anthozoenfauna des JungtertiÃĪrs von Borneo [Anthozoa from the Upper Tertiary of Borneo]. Sammlungen des Geologischen Reichsmuseums in Leiden, serie 1 10:37-136 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 108809: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.05.2011

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Trachyphylliidae
"Antillia constricta" = Antillophyllia constricta
"Antillia constricta" = Antillophyllia constricta Brueggemann 1877 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites nigrescens Dana 1846 stony coral
Goniopora planulata Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Pavona decussata Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
"Madrepora cf. pharaonis" = Acropora pharaonis
"Madrepora cf. pharaonis" = Acropora pharaonis Milne-Edwards and Haime 1860 stony coral