Where: Taiwan (22.6° N, 120.3° E: paleocoordinates 22.7° N, 120.1° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: "Riukiu Limestone" Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• Pliocene?-Pleistocene
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: S. Nomura. 1933. Catalogue of the Tertiary and Quaternary Mollusca from the Island of Taiwan (Formosa) in the Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Tohoku Imperial University, Sendai, Japan, Part 1: Pelecypoda. The Science Reports of the Tohoku University, serie 2 16:1-108 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 96337: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.06.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Venus (Venus) toreuma, "Venus (Antigona) puerpera" = Periglypta puerpera
Venus (Venus) toreuma venus clam
"Venus (Antigona) puerpera" = Periglypta puerpera Linnaeus 1758 venus clam | |
Chama sp. Linnaeus 1758 jewel box | |
Codakia exasperata Reeve 1854 clam |