Where: Borneo, Indonesia (1.8° N, 117.8° E: paleocoordinates 2.7° N, 121.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: N4 - N5 foram zone, Taballar Formation, Aquitanian to Aquitanian (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• From Wilson et al. 2007: Taballar overlies Mangkabua and underlies Birang. Te to Tf1 from the revised East India Letter Classification scheme based on larger benthic foraminifera from Adams, 1970; Lunt and Allan, 2004). Wilson et al report mollusks only from the top of Te5.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: mudstone and wackestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: F. A. Schilder. 1936. Anatomical characters of the Cypræacea which confirm the conchological classification. Journal of Molluscan Studies 22(2):75-112 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 177709: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 08.04.2016
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Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Cypraeopsis vandervlerki n. gen. n. sp.
Cypraeopsis vandervlerki n. gen. n. sp. Schilder 1936 cowry |