Benteng West, ISS1.3, Salayar Island (Pliocene of Indonesia)
Where: South Sulawesi, Indonesia (6.2° S, 120.4° E: paleocoordinates 6.0° S, 122.7° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Salayar Formation, Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 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 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 124783: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.02.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Anthozoa | |
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Galaxea fascicularis Linnaeus 1767 stony coral | |
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Leptastrea bewickensis Veron and Pichon 1977 stony coral | |
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Acropora "sp. D" Oken 1815 stony coral | |
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Favites "sp. A" Link 1807 stony coral
Favites cf. chinensis Verrill 1866 stony coral | |