Sangiran, Satir Fauna (Pleistocene of Indonesia)

Where: Indonesia (7.4° S, 110.8° E: paleocoordinates 7.5° S, 111.0° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Pucangan Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• aka Sangiran Formation

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone

Primary reference: G. D. van den Bergh. 1999. The Late Neogene elephantoid-bearing faunas of Indonesia and their palaeozoogeographic implications. A study of the terrestrial faunal succession of Sulawesi, Flores and Java, including evidence for early hominid dispersal east of Wallace's Line. Scripta Geologica 117:1-419 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 93519: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 20.01.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
"Geochelone atlas" = Megalochelys sivalensis
"Geochelone atlas" = Megalochelys sivalensis Falconer and Cautley 1837 turtle
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Sinomastodon bumiajuensis van der Maarel 1932 gomphothere
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Cervidae indet. Gray 1821 deer
 Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae