Also known as Reef 2334
Where: Indonesia (5.5° S, 127.5° E: paleocoordinates 1.0° S, 135.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: J. J. Cornee, J. Butterlin, P. Saint-Marc, J. P. Rehault, C. Honthaas, A. Laurenti-Ribaud, C. Chaix, M. Villeneuve, and Y. Anantasena. 1998. An early Miocene reefal platform in the Rama Ridge (Banda Sea, Indonesia). Geo-Marine Letters 18:34-39 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 70939: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.04.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Rhodophyceae | |
Rhodophyceae indet. Ruprecht 1851 | |
Foraminifera | |
Amphistegina sp. d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Globothalamea | |
Tubothalamea | |
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839 | |
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Anthozoa | |
Acropora cf. bonelli stony coral | |
cf. Dictyaraea sp. Reuss 1867 stony coral
Porites pusilla Felix 1884 stony coral | |
Fungia sp. Lamarck 1801 stony coral |