Where: Indonesia (10.3° S, 123.7° E: paleocoordinates 28.2° S, 85.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• Area comprises blocks in a melange. Most blocks are Norian in age, although a few are Carnian and some are even earliest Jurassic.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, nodular lithology not reported

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: Repository: Oishi Fossil Gallery, Josai University, Tokyo (OFG) and Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History (KMNH VP)

Primary reference: Y. Yabumoto and P. M. Brito. 2016. A new Triassic coelacanth, Whiteia oishii (Sarcopterygii, Actinistia) from West Timor, Indonesia. Paleontological Research 20:233-246 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180456: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.07.2016

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