Bontang, East Kalimantan, TF500 (Miocene of Indonesia)

Where: Indonesia (0.0° N, 117.0° E: paleocoordinates 0.1° N, 117.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• 9.4-9.8 Ma (early Tortonian)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; argillaceous siliciclastic sediments

• yellowish clay-rich sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: NMNH

Primary reference: N. Santodomingo. 2014. Miocene reef-coral diversity of Indonesia: unlocking the murky origins of the Coral Triangle. UU Department of Earth Sciences [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/A. Lauchstedt]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 164774: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 16.12.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Seriatopora sp.
Seriatopora sp. Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora sp., Acropora russelli, Acropora filiformis
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
Acropora russelli Wallace 1994 stony coral
Acropora filiformis Veron 2000 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Dictyaraea sp.
Dictyaraea sp. Reuss 1867 stony coral