Penghu Channel (Pleistocene of Taiwan)

Also known as Between Penghu Island and Taiwan

Where: Taiwan (23.0° N, 120.0° E: paleocoordinates 23.0° N, 120.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• Shan et al. 2013: Huang and Yu (2003) considered the Penghu Channel as a scour furrow formed by modern northward tidal currents, but the possibility of Penghu Channel being a river valley during the late Pleistocene could not be ruled out.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: dredged from the sea floor by fishermen

•Shan et al. 2013: The fossil material is a nearly complete skull occluded with the mandible (Fig. 2). It was collected from the Penghu Channel by fishermen when they were trawling and deposited in the National Museum of Natural Science, Taiwan (NMNS006394-F051722).

Primary reference: C.-H. Chang. 1996. The first fossil record of a short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) from the Penghu Channel. Bulletin of the National Museum of Science (Taichung) 8:73-80 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 73686: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 25.06.2007, edited by Philip Mannion and Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
 Cetacea - Delphinidae
Globicephala macrorhynchus Gray 1846 short-finned pilot whale
 Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Balaenopteridae indet.1 Gray 1864 rorqual
Megaptera novaeangliae1 Brisson 1762 humpback whale
 Cetacea - Balaenidae
Balaenidae indet.5 Gray 1821 right whale
Eubalaena sp.4 Gray 1864 right whale
NTUM-VP 190807
 Cetacea - Eschrichtiidae
Eschrichtius sp.6 Gray 1864 gray whale
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Elaphurus menzierianus5 Pere David's deer
Elaphurus davidianus Milne Edwards 1866 Pere David's deer
Cervus sp. Linnaeus 1758 deer
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bubalus youngi Chow and Hsu 1957 water buffalo
Bubalus teilhardi Young 1932 water buffalo
 Carnivora - Felidae
Panthera tigris Linnaeus 1758 tiger
 Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Crocuta ultima spotted hyaena
 Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus arctos Linnaeus 1758 brown bear
 Carnivora - Canidae
Nyctereutes procyonoides Gray 1834 raccoon dog
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
"Palaeoloxodon sp." = Elephas, Palaeoloxodon naumanni5
"Palaeoloxodon sp." = Elephas Linnaeus 1758 elephant
originally entered as "Paleoloxodon sp."
Palaeoloxodon naumanni5 Makiyama 1924 elephant
Reptilia
 Testudines - Trionychidae
"Trionyx liupani n. sp." = Rafetus swinhoei3
"Trionyx liupani n. sp." = Rafetus swinhoei3 Gray 1873 softshell turtle
Private collection in Tainan, Taiwan (syntype), a nearly complete cranium (Tao 1986, text figs. 1, 3, 5, 7 and figs. 2, 4, 6, 9); private collection in Chia-Yi, Taiwan (syntype), a hyohypoplastron (Tao 1986, text fig. 9 and figs. 8, 10–12).
 Crocodylia - Alligatoridae
Alligator sinensis2 Fauvel 1879 Chinese alligator
NMNS006394-F051722 (nearly complete skull occluded with the mandible)