Where: Taiwan (24.6° N, 120.7° E: paleocoordinates 24.6° N, 120.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tunghsiao Formation, Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• lower Tunghsiao Formation
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; siltstone and sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: C. H. Hu. 1988. Some solitary fossil corals and paleoecology of the Tunghsiao and Lungkang Formations of Miaoli region, northern Taiwan. Proceedings of the Geological Society of China 31(1):140-153 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 123203: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.01.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Balanophyllia oulangiformis n. sp., "Heteropsammia ovalis" = Heteropsammia cochlea
Balanophyllia oulangiformis n. sp. Hu 1988 stony coral | |
"Cylindrophyllia minima" = Peponocyathus minimus
"Cylindrophyllia minima" = Peponocyathus minimus Yabe and Eguchi 1937 stony coral | |
"Flabellum rubrum" = Monomyces rubrum
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Heterocyathus mai Cheng 1971 stony coral
Heterocyathus aequicostatus Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral |