Ma-an-liao, T'ai-chung Hsien (Pliocene of Taiwan)

Where: Taiwan (24.2° N, 120.8° E: paleocoordinates 24.3° N, 120.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pitoushan Group, Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

• pale greenish shaly sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: I. Hayasaka. 1947. Notes on some fossil echinoids of Taiwan, III. Acta Geologica Taiwanica 1:111-128 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 72011: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.05.2007

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Clypeasteroida - Clypeasteridae
Clypeaster cf. humilis Leske 1778 sand dollar