Hashima Mine (Eocene of Japan)

Where: Japan (32.6° N, 129.6° E: paleocoordinates 38.0° N, 123.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)

• middle part of Hashima Beds

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. Nagao. 1928. Palaeogene fossils of the Island of Kyushu, Japan Part I. Science Reports of the Tohoku Imperial University 9(3):97-128 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 203230: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 06.08.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Thersiteidae
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Corbiculidae