T'ung Hsiao, bed 13 (Pleistocene of Taiwan)

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: Wumeikeng Member (Toukoshan Formation), Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; sandy siltstone

• 4 m thick

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 96264: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 31.05.2010

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Carditida - Carditidae
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
"Crassatellites adamsii" = Crassatella
"Crassatellites adamsii" = Crassatella clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
 Arcida - Arcidae
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
"Dentalium hexagonum" = Paradentalium hexagonum
"Dentalium hexagonum" = Paradentalium hexagonum Gould 1859 tusk shell
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
Tibia formosa true conch
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella filiola turret shell