Where: Japan (35.1° N, 132.4° E: paleocoordinates 35.4° N, 132.0° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Tsunozu Group, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: M4 clay bed of the Tsunozu Group. AGE: In the Ida area, the Plio-Pleistocene boundary is placed just above the M3 clay bed of the Tsunozu Gp. Accordingly the age of the M4 clay be is considered to be somewhat younger than the 1.6 Ma.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; unlithified claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Imamura, Okamoto and Amimoto. REPOSITORY: Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum.
Primary reference: K. Okamoto and M. Ibaraki. 1988. Early Pleistocene fossil Mollusca from the sea of Japan off Yamaguchi Prefecture. Saito Ho-on Kai Special Publication 1:523-532 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 62301: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.07.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Rapana cf. thomsoni murex snail | |
? Tonna sp. Brünnich 1772 tun shell | |
Batillaria zonalis snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Solen sp. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
"Anisocorbula venusta" = Corbula (Anisocorbula)
"Anisocorbula venusta" = Corbula (Anisocorbula) clam | |
? Cyclina sp. venus clam
"? Callista chinensis" = Callista (Callista) chinensis Holten 1802 venus clam
Ruditapes philippinarum venus clam | |
Trapezium sp. Mühlfeld 1811 clam
Trapezium (Neotrapezium) sublaevigatum Lamarck 1819 clam | |
Corbicula sp. Megerle 1811 clam | |
"Macoma incongrua" = Macoma (Macoma) incongrua, "? Moerella sp." = Tellina (Moerella), "Nitidotellina nitidula" = Tellina (Nitidotellina)
"Macoma incongrua" = Macoma (Macoma) incongrua Martens 1865 tellin clam
"? Moerella sp." = Tellina (Moerella) Fischer 1887 tellin clam
"Nitidotellina nitidula" = Tellina (Nitidotellina) tellin clam | |
Anomia chinensis jingle | |
"Ostrea" sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Anadara sp. Gray 1847 ark | |
Musculista perfragilis mussel
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel |