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: Nanwo Member (Toukoshan Formation), Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; siltstone
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 96272: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 31.05.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Natica alapapilionis Chemntiz 1781 moon snail | |
Oliva mustellina olive snail | |
"Mitra flammea" = Mitra (Cancilla) flammea
"Mitra flammea" = Mitra (Cancilla) flammea Quoy 1832 mitre shell | |
Murex tribulus murex snail | |
Clavatula taiwanensis snail | |
Lophiotoma leucotropis turrid | |
Nassarius clathratus snail
Nassarius sequijocensis snail | |
"Bursa rana" = Bufonaria (Bufonaria) rana
"Bursa rana" = Bufonaria (Bufonaria) rana Linnaeus 1758 frog shell | |
Turritella filiola turret shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Cucullaea granulosa Jonas 1846 clam | |
"Anadara granosa" = Anadara (Tegillarca) granosa Linnaeus 1758 ark | |
Plicatula simplex scallop | |
Amusium japonicum scallop
Pecten naganumanus scallop
"Chlamys squamata" = Chlamys (Azumapecten) squamata Gmelin 1791 scallop | |
"Crassatellites adamsii" = Crassatella
"Crassatellites adamsii" = Crassatella clam | |
Acrosterigma burchardii cockle | |
Pitar indecoroides venus clam
Placamen tiara Dillwyn 1817 venus clam |