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
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 96265: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 31.05.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Pecten naganumanus, "Chlamys squamata" = Chlamys (Azumapecten) squamata
Pecten naganumanus scallop
"Chlamys squamata" = Chlamys (Azumapecten) squamata Gmelin 1791 scallop | |
Pitar indecoroides venus clam | |
Myadora proxima clam | |
"Crassatellites adamsii" = Crassatella
"Crassatellites adamsii" = Crassatella clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
"Dentalium hexagonum" = Paradentalium hexagonum
"Dentalium hexagonum" = Paradentalium hexagonum Gould 1859 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Turcica elica snail | |
Turritella filiola turret shell | |
Vexillum lirocostata ribbed mitre | |
Nassarius clathratus snail | |
"Asprella aculeiformis" = Conasprella (Fusiconus) aculeiformis
"Asprella aculeiformis" = Conasprella (Fusiconus) aculeiformis Reeve 1844 cone shell |