Ainonai-Mura, Ainonai Fm: Miocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Crepidula sp. Lamarck 1799
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Amathinidae
Amathina nobilis
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Sareptidae
Portlandia kakimii Uozumi 1957
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Papyridea harrimani Dall 1904
Serripes laperousii (Deshayes 1839)
recombined as Serripes (Serripes) laperousii
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Peronidia sp.
spelled with current rank as Tellina (Peronidia)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia sp. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Mizuhopecten kitamiensis n. sp. Satoru et al. 1966
Swiftopecten swiftii (Bernardi 1858)
recombined as Chlamys (Swiftopecten) swifti
Chlamys kaneharai (Yokoyama 1926)
recombined as Mimachlamys kaneharai
Chlamys cosibensis (Yokoyama 1911)
recombined as Chlamys (Chlamys) cosibensis
spp. hanzawae
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Terebrataliidae
Coptothyris gray
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Hemithirididae
Hemithyris psitacea (Gmelin 1790)
recombined as Hemithyris psittacea
Thecostraca - Balanomorpha - Balanidae
Balanus sp. Da Costa 1778
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Hokkaido
Coordinates: 43.8° North, 143.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.4° North, 142.1° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5-6
Key time interval:Miocene
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ainonai
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:171580
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Modifier:M. Krause Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-07-13 09:08:36 Last modified:2015-09-07 03:10:28
Access level:the public Released:2015-07-13 09:08:36
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

55785. U. Satoru, F. Tsutomu, and M. Masaru. 1966. Neogene Molluscan Fauna in Hokkaido : Part III. Description of the Ainonai Fauna Associated with Desmostylus cf. minor Nagao, from Kitami District, East Hokkaido. Contribution from the Department of the Geology and Mineralogy (971) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]