ammonites
Pucangan Formation - Java (Pliocene of Indonesia)

Where: Indonesia (7.5° S, 110.0° E: paleocoordinates 7.6° S, 110.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: NN 16-18 nannofossil zone, Pucangan Formation (Kendeng Group), Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Unknown relationship to other units; includes Sonde Member AGE: Pliocene.

•JA: NN 16-18 (Late Pliocene) according to Siesser et al. (1984)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; diatomaceous, tuffaceous, black, yellow, silty claystone

• ENVIRONMENT: Environmental data not reported in text.

•JA: "sea-marginal lake" or "lagoon" according to Siesser et al. (1984)

• LITHOLOGY: Lithologic and lithification data not reported in text.

•JA: "black or dark bluish grey lacustrine [or lagoonal] clay, with a number of dark greyish yellow marine silts, white tuff layers, and diatom-rich layers" (Siesser et al. 1984)

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Presumably K. Martin. REPOSITORY: Natt. Natuurhist. Mus., Leiden and GRDC Coll., Bandung (Indonesia).

Primary reference: S. K. Skwarko. 1994. Mollusca in Indonesian Cenozoic biostratigraphy (a computerised compilation) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 70084: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 16.03.2007

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