Waiwulun-Ao, Chilung (Oligocene of Taiwan)

Where: Taiwan (25.2° N, 121.7° E: paleocoordinates 27.5° N, 120.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wuchihshan Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, conglomeratic sandstone

• conglomeratic sandstone which overlies a quartzose sandstone and underlies a sequence of sandstone and shale alternation

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. C. Wang. 1983. A new species of Astriclypeus from the Wuchihshan Formation near Chilung, Taiwan. Bulletin of the Central Geological Survey 2:113-119 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78000: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.01.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Echinoidea
 Clypeasteroida - Astriclypeidae
Astriclypeus waiwulunensis n. sp.
Astriclypeus waiwulunensis n. sp. sand dollar