Where: Pangasinan, Philippines (16.3° N, 119.9° E: paleocoordinates 16.3° N, 119.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Santa Cruz Formation, Calabrian (1.8 - 0.8 Ma)

• Micropalaeontological evidence for date, age-diagnostic species Reticulofenestra asano.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: submarine fan; unlithified, bioturbated, sandy siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collected by De Ocampo, Wani et al. in the 1979, 2000s

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• The specimen described here was collected by De Ocampo in 1979, and is found in the collection of the National Museum of the Philippines at Manila. Recent- ly, Aguilar, Zepeda, Kurihara, Kase, and Wani surveyed the stratigraphic position of the unit that yielded the specimen, and Hagino and Hayashi analyzed nannofos- sils and planktonic foraminifers to determine the age of the unit.

Primary reference: R. Wani, R. S. P. De Ocampo, Y. M. Aguilar, M. A. Zepeda, Y. Kurihara, K. Hagino, H. Hayashi and T. Kase. 2008. First discovery of fossil Nautilus pompilius Linnaeus, 1758 (Nautilidae, Cephalopoda) from Pangasinan, northwestern Philippines. Paleontological Research 12(1):89-95 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 107988: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 20.04.2011

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