Also known as Between Penghu Island and Taiwan
Where: Taiwan (23.0° N, 120.0° E: paleocoordinates 23.0° N, 120.0° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• Shan et al. 2013: Huang and Yu (2003) considered the Penghu Channel as a scour furrow formed by modern northward tidal currents, but the possibility of Penghu Channel being a river valley during the late Pleistocene could not be ruled out.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: dredged from the sea floor by fishermen
•Shan et al. 2013: The fossil material is a nearly complete skull occluded with the mandible (Fig. 2). It was collected from the Penghu Channel by fishermen when they were trawling and deposited in the National Museum of Natural Science, Taiwan (NMNS006394-F051722).
Primary reference: C.-H. Chang. 1996. The first fossil record of a short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) from the Penghu Channel. Bulletin of the National Museum of Science (Taichung) 8:73-80 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 73686: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 25.06.2007, edited by Philip Mannion and Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse | |
Globicephala macrorhynchus Gray 1846 short-finned pilot whale | |
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Elaphurus davidianus Milne Edwards 1866 Pere David's deer
Cervus sp. Linnaeus 1758 deer | |
Bubalus youngi Chow and Hsu 1957 water buffalo
Bubalus teilhardi Young 1932 water buffalo | |
Panthera tigris Linnaeus 1758 tiger | |
Crocuta ultima spotted hyaena | |
Ursus arctos Linnaeus 1758 brown bear | |
Nyctereutes procyonoides Gray 1834 raccoon dog | |
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Reptilia | |
"Trionyx liupani n. sp." = Rafetus swinhoei3
"Trionyx liupani n. sp." = Rafetus swinhoei3 Gray 1873 softshell turtle Private collection in Tainan, Taiwan (syntype), a nearly complete cranium (Tao 1986, text figs. 1, 3, 5, 7 and figs. 2, 4, 6, 9); private collection in Chia-Yi, Taiwan (syntype), a hyohypoplastron (Tao 1986, text fig. 9 and figs. 8, 10–12).
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Alligator sinensis2 Fauvel 1879 Chinese alligator NMNS006394-F051722 (nearly complete skull occluded with the mandible)
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