T'ung Hsiao, bed 17: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Taiwan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella filiola
Gastropoda - Pseudomelaniidae
Crassispira hataii
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Nassarius clathratus
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Clavatulidae
Turricula byorituensis
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Asprella aculeiformis (Reeve 1844)
recombined as Conasprella (Fusiconus) aculeiformis
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
Clathrodrillia jefreysii
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Striarca interplicata
Anadara tricenicosta
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten naganumanus
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium byorituensis
see common names

Geography
Country:Taiwan
Coordinates: 24.5° North, 120.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.6° North, 120.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58800 - 0.78100 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Miaoli Formation:Toukoshan Member:Nanwo
Local section:T'ung Hsiao Local bed:17
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Lithology description: medium grained sandstone, 37 m thick
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:96268
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-05-31 05:25:45 Last modified:2010-05-31 08:25:45
Access level:the public Released:2010-05-31 05:25:45
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

32679. T. Kotaka. 1973. Faunal analysis of the Upper Miaoli Group in the Tunghsiao area, Miaoli Province, Formosa, China. The Science Reports of the Tohoku University, Serie 2 Geology, Special Volume 6:81-96 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]