Where: Malaysia (5.5° N, 117.0° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 5.3° N, 117.4° E (Wright 2013)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Togopi Formation, Pliocene to Pliocene (5.3 - 0.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Togopi Fm. Unknown lithostratigraphic relationships. THICKNESS: Unit of unknown thickness. Collections assumed to be from individual beds. AGE: Debated. Cox (1948) suggested a Pliocene, if not Late Miocene age; Nuttall (1961) suggested Quaternary, but possibly Pliocene; Nuttall (1965) suggested a Plio-Pleistocene age. A Pliocene-Pleistocene age is assigned here. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within unit.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology:
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Collected by N. S. Haile (c. 1950's). REPOSITORY: Unknown. NB....may well stand for some repository.
Primary reference: W. Hashimoto. 1982. Preliminary notes on fossil records of East Malaysia and Brunei. Geology and Palaeontology of Southeast Asia 137-175 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 72094: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.05.2007
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Anadara tambacana Martin 1883 ark | |
Cardita javana clam | |
"Lucina (Here) gemma" = Here, "Lucina (Pleurolucina) pisum" = Lucina semperiana
"Lucina (Here) gemma" = Here clam
"Lucina (Pleurolucina) pisum" = Lucina semperiana Issel 1869 clam | |
"Corbula aff. fortisulcata" = Corbula (Notocorbula) fortisulcata
"Corbula aff. fortisulcata" = Corbula (Notocorbula) fortisulcata Smith 1879 clam | |
"Spisula aff. trigonella" = Spisula (Notospisula) trigonella
"Spisula aff. trigonella" = Spisula (Notospisula) trigonella Lamarck 1818 Trigonal Mactra | |
Gastropoda | |
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Gyrineum spinosum triton shell | |
Cryptospira tricincta margin shell | |
Thais (Stramonita) aff. carinifera Lamarck 1822 murex snail
Murex ternispina murex snail
Murex trapa murex snail
Murex macgillivrayi Dohrn 1862 murex snail | |
"Conus djarianensis" = Conus (Lithoconus) djarianensis
"Conus djarianensis" = Conus (Lithoconus) djarianensis Martin 1895 cone shell | |
Turritella aff. jenkinsi turret shell |