Also known as Locality 7
Where: Japan (37.5° N, 140.0° E: paleocoordinates 38.9° N, 138.4° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Kubota Formation (Higashi-Tanakura Group), Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• Higbashi-Tanajura group is a marine representative of the regressive Genjigawa stage
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified, medium-grained, micaceous, gray, blue, argillaceous sandstone and lithified, fine-grained, micaceous, black, blue, argillaceous sandstone
Primary reference: Y. Iwasaki. 1970. The Shiobara-type Molluscan Fauna: An ecological analysis of fossil molluscs. Journal of the faculty of science, University of Tokyo, Section 2 17(3):351-444 [A. Miller/K. Bulinski/K. Bulinski]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 52112: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 25.07.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Cerithium kobelti cerith snail | |
Turritella tanaguraensis turret shell | |
Crepidula sp. Lamarck 1799 slipper shell | |
"Neverita kiritaniana" = Glossaulax didyma, "Sinum yabei" = Sinum ineptum
"Neverita kiritaniana" = Glossaulax didyma Röding 1798 moon snail
"Sinum yabei" = Sinum ineptum Yokoyama 1924 moon snail | |
Nassarius acutidentatus snail | |
Phos iwakianus true whelk
Siphonalia cf. spadicea true whelk | |
Cancellaria hukusimana snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Anomia cytaeum jingle | |
Ostrea gravitesta oyster | |
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Laevicardium shiobarense cockle | |
"Macoma incongrua" = Macoma (Macoma) incongrua
"Macoma incongrua" = Macoma (Macoma) incongrua Martens 1865 tellin clam | |
"Felaniella usta" = Diplodonta
"Felaniella usta" = Diplodonta clam | |
"Protothaca tateiwai" = Leukoma venus clam
Dosinia kaneharai venus clam
Dosinia japonica venus clam
Mercenaria chitaniana quahog | |
"Lucinoma annulata" = Lucinoma annulatum
"Lucinoma annulata" = Lucinoma annulatum Reeve 1850 clam |