Loc. 2 - 300m southwest of Eboshi, Goshonoura islet: Late/Upper Albian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Arca (Eonavieula) tashiroi
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris (Hanaia) goshonouraensis
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Myrtea (Myrtea) amalloi
4 specimens
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Pachythaerus nagaoi
Anthonya apicalis
3 specimens
Anthonya amakusensis n. sp.
5 specimens
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Nipponitrigonia kikuchiana (Yokoyama 1891)
2 specimens
listed as "Nipponitrigonia kikuchiana (Yehara)"
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Megatrigoniidae
Pterotrigonia pustulosa (Nagao 1930)
2 specimens
recombined as Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia) pustulosa
Pterotrigonia (Ptilotrigonia) ogawai
2 specimens
Pterotrigonia (Ptilotrigonia) dilapsa
3 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 32.3° North, 130.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:45.2° North, 125.2° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Albian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 4
Key time interval:Late/Upper Albian
Age range of interval:106.20000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Goshonoura Formation:I
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Formation I by Matsumoto, 1938
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red sandstone
Secondary lithology: mudstone
Lithology description: mainly composed of the alternations of red-colored sandstone or mudstone
Environment:transition zone/lower shoreface
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:142307
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:T. Schossleitner
Modifier:T. Schossleitner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2013-04-08 18:53:21 Last modified:2013-04-11 02:18:30
Access level:the public Released:2013-04-08 18:53:21
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

46201. M. Tashiro and K. Takatsuka. 1991. Upper Albian bivalves from the Goshonoura Group. Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kochi University, Series E, Geology 12:1-10 [M. Aberhan/T. Schossleitner]