ammonites
Fatu Laun, Timor (Jurassic to of East Timor)

Where: East Timor (9.0° S, 125.6° E: paleocoordinates 23.3° N, 143.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sinemurian to Sinemurian (196.5 - 183.0 Ma)

• Age identified as middle Liassic

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, black lime mudstone

• bituminous, dark-gray, platy limestone

Preservation: replaced with silica

Primary reference: J. Wanner. 1956. Zur Stratigraphie von Portugiesisch Timor. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologische Gesellschaft 108:109-140 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 21183: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 20.06.2002