Where: Malaysia (5.5° N, 117.0° E: paleocoordinates 5.5° N, 117.1° E)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Togopi Formation, Pliocene to Pliocene (5.3 - 0.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Togopi Fm. Unknown lithostratigraphic relationships. THICKNESS: Unit of unknown thickness. Collections assumed to be from individual beds. AGE: Debated. Cox (1948) suggested a Pliocene, if not Late Miocene age; Nuttall (1961) suggested Quaternary, but possibly Pliocene; Nuttall (1965) suggested a Plio-Pleistocene age. A Pliocene-Pleistocene age is assigned here. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within unit.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology:
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Collected by N. S. Haile (c. 1950's). REPOSITORY: Unknown. NB....may well stand for some repository.
Primary reference: W. Hashimoto. 1982. Preliminary notes on fossil records of East Malaysia and Brunei. Geology and Palaeontology of Southeast Asia 137-175 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 72093: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.05.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Placenta ephippium" = Placuna (Ephippium) ephippium
"Placenta ephippium" = Placuna (Ephippium) ephippium Philipsson 1788 scallop | |
"Antigona chemnitzi" = Antigona (Antigona) chemnitzii
"Antigona chemnitzi" = Antigona (Antigona) chemnitzii Hanley 1844 Chemnitz's Venus | |
Gastropoda | |
"Neverita cf. didyma" = Glossaulax didyma
"Neverita cf. didyma" = Glossaulax didyma Röding 1798 moon snail | |
Nassarius cf. verbeeki Martin 1895 snail | |
"Eburna spirata" = Babylonia spirata
"Eburna spirata" = Babylonia spirata Linnaeus 1758 true whelk | |
"Laevistrombus varinginensis" = Strombus (Laevistrombus)
"Laevistrombus varinginensis" = Strombus (Laevistrombus) conch | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Sulcoretusa concentrica snail |