Also known as Lobster Cave
Where: Taiwan (22.0° N, 120.8° E: paleocoordinates 22.0° N, 120.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Hengchun Limestone Formation, Middle Pleistocene to Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: cave; lithified, calcareous reef rocks and unlithified, red, muddy, sandy sandstone
•"Most of the limestone in the cave is covered by a layer of reddish sediment composed of limestone pebbles and fossils, though the boundary between the reddish sediment and Hengchun Limestone is unclear. A flow stone made of carbonate calcite was found 7 m away from the cave entry, and the fossil-bearing sediments are found behind it. The fossil-bearing sediments are characterized by a mixture of reddish sand and mud, as well as limestone pebbles, which shows a great similarity to the Eluanbi Bed."
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 2014
Primary reference: T.-C. Chi, Y. Gan, T.-R. Yang and C.-H. Chang. 2021. First report of leopard fossils from a limestone cave in Kenting area, southern Taiwan. PeerJ 9:e12020:1-24 [P. Mannion/Y. Cho/Y. Cho]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 223322: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Yi-Yang Cho on 08.11.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Macaca cf. cyclopis Swinhoe 1863 Formosan rock macaque | |
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Niviventer sp. Marschall 1976 mouse | |
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Microtus sp. Schrank 1798 vole | |
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Hystrix sp. Linnaeus 1758 porcupine | |
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Muntiacus sp. Rafinesque 1815 muntjak
Cervus sp. Linnaeus 1758 deer | |