Also known as Peikeng-Hsi, Peishankeng area

Where: Taiwan (23.9° N, 121.1° E: paleocoordinates 23.9° N, 121.0° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Suichangliu Formation, Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)

• Found in irregular calcareous hard sandstone boulder. Suichangliu Formation is exposed in the vicinity of the collecting site and exposed along the Peikeng-Hsi, a branch of the Nankang-Hsi. The Suichangliu Formation consists mostly of the blackish gray shale or argillite with intercalation of thin sandstone (greywacke). The age of the formation in the Peishankeng area based on micropal evidence is Oligocene. The float boulder is assumed to have not been transported far from its present location.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: recrystallized

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collection held in the Paleontology Laboratory of the Central geological Survey, Taipei, Taiwan. Collected by C. Chang.

Primary reference: T. Huang. 2002. Aturia chaohsini sp. nov. from the Suichangliu Formation (Oligocene) of Taiwan. Western Pacific Earth Sciences 2(4):439-444 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41730: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 20.07.2004

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