Where: Maluku, Indonesia (3.5° S, 130.5° E: paleocoordinates 2.4° S, 132.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. H. F. Umbgrove. 1924. Report on Pleistocene and Pliocene corals from Ceram. In L. Rutten, W. Holtz (eds.), Geological, petrographical and palaeontological results of explorations, carried out from September 1917 till June 1919 in the island of Ceram, Second Series: Palaeontology 1:1-22 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 127844: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.05.2012
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Taxonomic list
| Anthozoa | |
"Favia cf. pallida" = Dipsastraea pallida, "Antillia cf. ponderosa" = Trachyphyllia
"Favia cf. pallida" = Dipsastraea pallida Dana 1846 stony coral
"Antillia cf. ponderosa" = Trachyphyllia stony coral | |
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Porites lutea Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
Goniopora stokesi Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral | |
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Fungia concinna Verrill 1864 stony coral | |
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Diploastrea heliopora Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
"Polysolenia solida n. sp." = Astreopora
"Polysolenia solida n. sp." = Astreopora stony coral | |