The discovery of macrofossils at Selumar, Belitung, Indonesia
DescriptionBulletin 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 |