Bulletin of the Geological Society of Malaysia, Volume 8, Dec, 1977, pp. 113 – 115

The discovery of macrofossils at Selumar, Belitung, Indonesia

K.F.G. HOSKING¹, T.E. YANCEY¹, H.L. STRIMPLE² and M.T. JONES³

¹Jabatan Geologi, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur

²Dept. of Geology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, U.S.A.

³Broken Hill Prop. (Indonesia), Kelapa Kampit, Belitung, Indonesia

This note is written in order to record the first discovery of well preserved, in situ, macrofossils on Belitung Island, Indonesia, as well as to provide details of the circumstances of the discovery, the geological environment in which the fossils occur together with a preliminary account of the best fossil specimen that was recovered, and the geological significance of the find.

https://doi.org/10.7186/bgsm08197708