Where: Taiwan (24.6° N, 120.8° E: paleocoordinates 24.7° N, 120.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Byoritsu Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• uppermost Byoritsu Beds

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified 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 72016: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.05.2007

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