Cretaceous of eastern and southeastern Sulawesi (Indonesia): New micropaleontological and biostratigraphical data

New field-data has led to the identification of outcrops of pelagic carbonates with planktonic foraminifera and calcareous nanoplankton of Albian and Campanian-Maastrichtian age in strongly tectonized areas in eastern and southeastern Sulawesi. Most species are described for the first time from this region. The new information indicates no major difference in the facies of the eastern and southeastern arms of Sulawesi. Rather similar facies are also recorded in numerous places in eastern Indonesia and in the distal Australian shelf during Late Cretaceous times.