Sawahlunto (Triassic of Indonesia)

Where: West Sumatra, Indonesia (0.6° S, 100.7° E: paleocoordinates 3.2° N, 99.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Triassic (237.0 - 201.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone and marl

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Wanner. 1931. De stratigraphie van Nederlandsch Oost-Indie. 19. Mesozoikum. Leidsche Geologische Mededeelingen 5:567-610 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 204435: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 09.09.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
  -
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
Cephalopoda
 Ammonoidea -
Ammonitida indet. Hyatt 1889 ammonite
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
"Gervilleia sp." = Gervillia
"Gervilleia sp." = Gervillia Defrance 1820 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
"Gonodon sphaerioides" = Schafhaeutlia
"Gonodon sphaerioides" = Schafhaeutlia clam
 Cardiida - Palaeocarditidae
"Cardita cf. singularis" = Palaeocardita singularis
"Cardita cf. singularis" = Palaeocardita singularis Healey 1908 clam
 Cardiida - Anatinellidae
Anatina cf. praecursor Oppel 1858 clam
 Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
unclassified
  -
Osteichthyes
 Osteichthyes -
Osteichthyes indet. Huxley 1880 bony fish
 Life -