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