Toto, ISS3.3, 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 124790: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.02.2012

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Platygyra phrygia" = Leptoria phrygia Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
Cyphastrea serailia Forskal 1775 stony coral
"Montastrea curta" = Astrea curta Dana 1846 stony coral
Goniastrea favulus Dana 1846 stony coral
Favites pentagona Esper 1794 stony coral
Favites abdita Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
Platygyra lamellina Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Goniopora "sp. B" Blainville 1830 stony coral
Goniopora columna Dana 1846 stony coral
Goniopora cf. norfolkensis Veron and Pichon 1982 stony coral
Goniopora palmensis Veron and Pichon 1982 stony coral
Porites cylindrica Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylophora coalescens Gerth 1923 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Euphylliidae
Galaxea astreata Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Leptastreidae
Leptastrea purpurea Dana 1846 stony coral