Toto, ISS3.1, Salayar Island (Pleistocene of Indonesia)

Where: South Sulawesi, Indonesia (5.9° S, 120.5° E: paleocoordinates 5.8° S, 121.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Salayar Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; framestone and sandy floatstone

• intermediate reef slope, 10-15 m water depth
• coral pebble to cobble conglomerate framestone in a friable matrix of coarse sandy floatstone

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 124787: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.02.2012, edited by Mihaela Krause

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Pavona "sp. A" Lamarck 1801 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Leptastreidae
Leptastrea transversa Klunzinger 1879 stony coral
Leptastrea purpurea Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae
Symphyllia "n. sp. A" Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Symphyllia densium n. sp. Bromfield 2013 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylophora coalescens Gerth 1923 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Montipora florida Nemenzo 1967 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Euphylliidae
Galaxea paucisepta Claereboudt 1990 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Platygyra pini Chevalier 1975 stony coral
Cyphastrea serailia Forskal 1775 stony coral