ammonites
Tapian Langstat, Menkrawit and Gelingseh Beds, Borneo (Miocene of Indonesia)

Where: Borneo, Indonesia (0.7° N, 117.6° E: paleocoordinates 0.8° N, 118.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• Tf3 age, Menkrawit and Gelnigseh Beds

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; peloidal, calcareous claystone

• the outcropping formation consisting of marly clays with forams and small molluscs.

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: Specimens housed in Rijksmuseum van Geologie en Mineralogie (RGM) .

Primary reference: C. Beets. 1981. Late Miocene Mollusca from Tapian Langstat and Gunung Batuta, Sungai Bungalun area, Kalimantan (E. Borneo). Scripta Geologica 59:13-28 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42221: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 26.07.2004

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