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 96273: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 31.05.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Mammilla mammata Röding 1798 moon snail
Natica alapapilionis Chemntiz 1781 moon snail | |
"Bursa rana" = Bufonaria (Bufonaria) rana
"Bursa rana" = Bufonaria (Bufonaria) rana Linnaeus 1758 frog shell | |
"Hemifusus ternatanus" = Volema (Hemifusus) ternatanus
"Hemifusus ternatanus" = Volema (Hemifusus) ternatanus Gmelin 1791 snail | |
Nassarius clathratus snail | |
Oliva mustellina olive snail | |
Turricula byorituensis snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Corbula scaphoides" = Aloidis scaphoides
"Corbula scaphoides" = Aloidis scaphoides Hinds 1843 clam | |
Placamen tiara, Paphia hirabayashii, "Paphia undulata" = Paphia (Paphia) undulata, Pitar indecoroides
Placamen tiara Dillwyn 1817 venus clam
Paphia hirabayashii venus clam
"Paphia undulata" = Paphia (Paphia) undulata Born 1778 venus clam
Pitar indecoroides venus clam | |
Anomia lischkei jingle | |
"Ostrea gigas" = Crassostrea gigas
"Ostrea gigas" = Crassostrea gigas Thunberg 1793 giant Pacific oyster | |
Glycymeris formosana clam | |