Toluarang River, loc. 777, Ceram: Pliocene, Indonesia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Deltocyathus lens Alcock 1902
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Flabellum pavoninum Lesson 1831
subsp. distinctum
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Montipora ramosa Bernard 1897
synonym of Montipora digitata
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Pocillopora ligulata Dana 1846
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Goniopora planulata (Ehrenberg 1834)
Porites nigrescens Dana 1846
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Dendrophyllia cf. oahensis Vaughan 1907
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Mycedium cf. tubifex (Dana 1846)
synonym of Mycedium elephantotus
Goniastrea retiformis (Lamarck 1816)
Favites virens (Dana 1846)
synonym of Favites abdita
see common names

Geography
Country:Indonesia State/province:Maluku
Coordinates: 2.9° South, 129.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:2.9° South, 129.5° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pliocene
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: probably Pliocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: marl
Secondary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:127839
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-05-25 21:11:28 Last modified:2012-05-25 08:37:30
Access level:authorizer only Released:2013-05-25 21:11:28
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

41777. 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]