FOSSIL MAMMALS FROM TAIWAN

Mammal fossils were first discovered on Taiwan by H. Saitō in 1926. Skulls and teeth fragments of Rhinoceros, Elephas, and Stegodon were discovered subsequently in transported float; the source bed, Tertiary gravels of the Kichō formation, was found in 1940 by Kaneko. The Tso-chen area alone has yielded specimens of all fossil mammals found in any of the 13 known fossil localities on Taiwan. Occurrences of these fossils with marine shells indicate deposition in the regressing sea of the late Pliocene. Similar fossils at Tso-chen and Hsin-chu indicate possible stratigraphic correlation. --M. Russell.