Punung (Pleistocene of Indonesia)

Where: Indonesia (8.1° S, 111.0° E: paleocoordinates 8.1° S, 111.0° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• 60-125 ka

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

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 93524: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 20.01.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas maximus Linnaeus 1758 Asian elephant
 Carnivora - Felidae
Panthera tigris Linnaeus 1758 tiger
 Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus malayanus Raffles 1821 sun bear
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Sus sp. Linnaeus 1758 pig
Sus scrofa Linnaeus 1758 wild boar
subspecies vittatus
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Cervidae indet. Gray 1821 deer
Muntiacus muntjak Rafinesque 1815 muntjak
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bubalus bubalus water buffalo
Bibos sp. Hodgson 1837 antelope
Capricornis sumatraensis Linnaeus 1758 antelope
 Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Tapirus indicus Desmarest 1819 Malayan tapir
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinoceros sondaicus Desmarest 1822 Javan rhinoceros
 Rodentia - Hystricidae
Hystrix brachyurus porcupine
= Acanthion
 Primates - Hominidae
Pongo pygmaeus Linnaeus 1760 Bornean orangutan
Homo sapiens Linnaeus 1758 human
 Primates - Hylobatidae
"Hylobates syndactylus" = Symphalangus syndactylus
"Hylobates syndactylus" = Symphalangus syndactylus Raffles 1822 siamang
 Primates - Cercopithecidae