Where: Taiwan (24.5° N, 120.7° E: paleocoordinates 24.6° N, 120.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Wumeikeng Member (Toukoshan Formation), Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 96253: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 31.05.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Ventricoloidea foveolata" = Venus (Ventricoloidea)
"Ventricoloidea foveolata" = Venus (Ventricoloidea) venus clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium byorituensis tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Natica alapapilionis Chemntiz 1781 moon snail | |
Lophiotoma leucotropis turrid | |
Terebra triseriata auger snail
Terebra orthocostulata auger snail | |
"Asprella insculpta" = Conasprella (Fusiconus) insculpta
"Asprella insculpta" = Conasprella (Fusiconus) insculpta Kiener 1847 cone shell | |
Mitra yokoyamai mitre shell |