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: Nanwo Member (Toukoshan Formation), Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; 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 96271: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 31.05.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Plicatula simplex scallop | |
Pecten naganumanus scallop
"Chlamys squamata" = Chlamys (Azumapecten) squamata Gmelin 1791 scallop
Amusium japonicum scallop | |
Ostrea denselamellosa oyster | |
Acrosterigma burchardii cockle | |
Dosinia amphidesmoides, "Paphia undulata" = Paphia (Paphia) undulata, Chione byorituensis, Pitar indecoroides
Dosinia amphidesmoides venus clam
"Paphia undulata" = Paphia (Paphia) undulata Born 1778 venus clam
Chione byorituensis venus clam
Pitar indecoroides venus clam | |
"Crassatellites adamsii" = Crassatella
"Crassatellites adamsii" = Crassatella clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Architectonica perspectiva Linnaeus 1767 sundial | |
"Bursa rana" = Bufonaria (Bufonaria) rana
"Bursa rana" = Bufonaria (Bufonaria) rana Linnaeus 1758 frog shell | |
Nassarius clathratus snail
Nassarius sequijocensis snail | |
"Asprella aculeiformis" = Conasprella (Fusiconus) aculeiformis, "Conus djarianensis" = Conus (Lithoconus) djarianensis
"Asprella aculeiformis" = Conasprella (Fusiconus) aculeiformis Reeve 1844 cone shell
"Conus djarianensis" = Conus (Lithoconus) djarianensis Martin 1895 cone shell | |
Lophiotoma leucotropis turrid | |
Turricula byorituensis snail | |
Oliva mustellina olive snail | |
Murex tribulus murex snail | |
Natica alapapilionis Chemntiz 1781 moon snail |