Malaysia Tin Mine, Kanthan (Silurian to of Malaysia)

Where: Perak, Malaysia (4.8° N, 101.1° E: paleocoordinates 19.6° N, 135.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wenlock to Wenlock (433.4 - 419.2 Ma)

• Middle-Upper Silurian rather than Lower Devonian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

• dark-gray limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. D. Thomas and C. T. Scrutton. 1966. Palaeozoic corals from Perak, Malaya, Malaysia. Overseas Geology and Mineral Resources 10(2):164-171 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78204: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 31.01.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
Heliolites barrandei Penecke 1887 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites allani tabulate coral
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral