Where: Hsinchu-Hsien, Taiwan (24.6° N, 121.0° E: paleocoordinates 24.7° N, 120.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cholan Formation, Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• Based on mollusc and foram occurences, early Pliocene age

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; gray, yellow mudstone and yellow sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: T. Huang. 1966. A new species of a whale tympanic bone from Taiwan, China. Transactions and Proceeedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan 61:183-187 [W. Clyde/J. Finarelli/W. Clyde]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 13488: authorized by Will Clyde, entered by John Finarelli on 03.04.2002, edited by Mark Uhen

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