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 | |
"Geochelone atlas" = Megalochelys sivalensis
"Geochelone atlas" = Megalochelys sivalensis Falconer and Cautley 1837 turtle | |
Mammalia | |
Sinomastodon bumiajuensis van der Maarel 1932 gomphothere | |
Cervidae indet. Gray 1821 deer | |
Hexaprotodon simplex pygmy hippo |