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 96276: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 31.05.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Calyptraea chinensis Linnaeus 1758 slipper shell | |
Crassispira hataii snail | |
Mammilla mammata Röding 1798 moon snail
Natica alapapilionis Chemntiz 1781 moon snail | |
Oliva mustellina olive snail
Olivella spretoides olive snail | |
"Mitra flammea" = Mitra (Cancilla) flammea
"Mitra flammea" = Mitra (Cancilla) flammea Quoy 1832 mitre shell | |
Vexillum lirocostata ribbed mitre | |
"Conus djarianensis" = Conus (Lithoconus) djarianensis
"Conus djarianensis" = Conus (Lithoconus) djarianensis Martin 1895 cone shell | |
Clavatula serna snail
Turricula byorituensis snail | |
Lophiotoma marmorata turrid | |
Clathrodrillia jefreysii snail | |
"Hemifusus ternatanus" = Volema (Hemifusus) ternatanus
"Hemifusus ternatanus" = Volema (Hemifusus) ternatanus Gmelin 1791 snail | |
Nassarius clathratus snail
Nassarius sequijocensis snail | |
Cantharus luliana Martin 1884 true whelk | |
"Bursa rana" = Bufonaria (Bufonaria) rana
"Bursa rana" = Bufonaria (Bufonaria) rana Linnaeus 1758 frog shell | |
Tonna melanostoma tun shell | |
Semicassis japonica snail | |
Turritella filiola turret shell | |
Architectonica perspectiva Linnaeus 1767 sundial | |
Bivalvia | |
Cucullaea granulosa Jonas 1846 clam | |
Pecten naganumanus, "Chlamys squamata" = Chlamys (Azumapecten) squamata
Pecten naganumanus scallop
"Chlamys squamata" = Chlamys (Azumapecten) squamata Gmelin 1791 scallop | |
Ostrea nippona oyster | |
"Crassatellites adamsii" = Crassatella
"Crassatellites adamsii" = Crassatella clam | |
"Corbula scaphoides" = Aloidis scaphoides
"Corbula scaphoides" = Aloidis scaphoides Hinds 1843 clam |