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

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae
Lobophyllia hemprichii Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
Oxypora glabra Nemenzo 1959 stony coral
Echinophyllia robusta Gerth 1923 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Montipora "n. sp. A" Blainville 1830 stony coral
Montipora pandolfii n. sp. Bromfield 2013 stony coral
Acropora "sp. C" Oken 1815 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Goniopora "sp. B" Blainville 1830 stony coral
Goniopora planulata Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
Goniopora columna Dana 1846 stony coral
Goniopora cf. norfolkensis Veron and Pichon 1982 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Pavona explanulata Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Pavona cactus Forskal 1775 stony coral
Leptoseris "sp. C" Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Caulastrea "n. sp. A" Dana 1846 stony coral
Goniastrea "sp. A" Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Echinopora "sp. A" Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Euphylliidae
Galaxea fascicularis Linnaeus 1767 stony coral
Galaxea acrhelia Veron 2000 stony coral
Galaxea paucisepta Claereboudt 1990 stony coral