Benteng West, ISS1.2, 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 124782: 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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Goniopora tenuidens Quelch 1886 stony coral
Goniopora planulata Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral | |
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Pachyseris cf. curvata Martin 1880 stony coral | |
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Galaxea fascicularis Linnaeus 1767 stony coral
Euphyllia "n. sp. A" Dana 1846 stony coral
Euphyllia romani n. sp. Bromfield 2013 stony coral | |
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Echinophyllia robusta Gerth 1923 stony coral
Lobophyllia cf. robusta Yabe and Sugiyama 1936 stony coral
Lobophyllia hemprichii Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral | |
Caulastrea "n. sp. B", Caulastraea geoffreyi n. sp., Caulastrea tumida, "Favia matthaii" = Dipsastraea matthaii
Caulastrea "n. sp. B" Dana 1846 stony coral
Caulastraea geoffreyi n. sp. Bromfield 2013 stony coral
Caulastrea tumida Matthai 1928 stony coral
"Favia matthaii" = Dipsastraea matthaii Vaughan 1918 stony coral | |