Langgon Island, Langkawi, Kedah (Silurian of Malaysia)
Where: Malaysia (6.4° N, 99.9° E: paleocoordinates 21.3° N, 133.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Llandovery (443.7 - 428.2 Ma)
• Lower Detrital Band
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale
• band of graptolite- and trilobite-bearing shales interbedded in limestones
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. Kobayashi, C. R. Jones, and T. Hamada. 1964. On the Lower Silurian shelly fauna in the Langkawi Islands, Northwest Malaya. Japanese Journal of Geology and Geography 35(1):73-80 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 73357: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.06.2007