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 P. Collenette (c. 1950's). REPOSITORY: Unknown.
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 72104: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.05.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Chione tiara" = Placamen tiara
"Chione tiara" = Placamen tiara Dillwyn 1817 venus clam | |
"Vasticardium lacunosum" = Trachycardium lacunosum, Hemicardium aff. guichardi
"Vasticardium lacunosum" = Trachycardium lacunosum Reeve 1845 cockle
Hemicardium aff. guichardi cockle | |
Crassatella radiata Sowerby 1825 clam | |
"Cardita ovalis" = Cardites ovalis
"Cardita ovalis" = Cardites ovalis Rosenberg et al. 2006 clam | |
Plicatula imbricata scallop | |
Chlamys singaporina, "Chlamys senatoria" = Mimachlamys senatoria
Chlamys singaporina scallop
"Chlamys senatoria" = Mimachlamys senatoria Gmelin 1791 scallop | |
Gastropoda | |
Natica vitellus Linnaeus 1758 moon snail | |
"Apollon bituberculare" = Gyrineum
"Apollon bituberculare" = Gyrineum triton shell | |
"Rimella javana" = Varicospira javana
"Rimella javana" = Varicospira javana Martin 1879 snail | |
Conus mucronatus cone shell | |
Cryptospira tricincta margin shell | |
Ancilla ampla Gmelin 1791 olive snail | |
Vexillum cf. taeniatum ribbed mitre | |
Nassaria acuminata snail |