Tsukeng Village: Middle Eocene, Taiwan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Discocyclinidae
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Discocyclina dispansa
(Sowerby 1840)
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11 specimens | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Taiwan | State/province: | N/A |
| Coordinates: | 23.9° North, 120.7° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 27.3° North, 117.9° East |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2-3 | ||
| Key time interval: | Middle Eocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 47.80000 - 37.71000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified siltstone |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Articulated whole bodies: | none |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | all macrofossils |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 208821 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Lin | Enterer: | A. Lin | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2020-04-14 04:24:54 | Last modified: | 2020-04-14 04:24:54 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2020-04-14 04:24:54 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 72082. | fossil record | C.-Y. Huang, Y. Yen, P.-M. Liew, D.-J. He, W.-R. Chi, M.-S. Wu, and M. Zhao. 2013. Significance of indigenous Eocene larger foraminifera Discocyclina dispansa in Western Foothills, Central Taiwan: A Paleogene marine rift basin in Chinese continental margin. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 62(30):425-437 [A. Lin/A. Lin] |