Hirotomi, eurythermal molluscs: Langhian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Crepidula jimboana
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Glossaulax didyma (Röding 1798)
subsp. coticazae
Bivalvia - Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Panopea japonica
Bivalvia - Solenida - Pharidae
Cultellus izumoensis Yokoyama 1923
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Myidae
Mya cuneiformis Böhm 1915
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Ungulinidae
Felaniella usta
synonym of Diplodonta
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Macoma optiva
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Patinopecten kimurai Nomura and Hatai 1937
synonym of Mizuhopecten kimurai
Patinopecten kobiyamai
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris cisshuensis Makiyama 1926
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Hokkaido
Coordinates: 42.5° North, 142.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.1° North, 140.6° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Langhian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Langhian
Age range of interval:15.98000 - 13.82000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Furanui
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: early Middle Miocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "siliciclastic"
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:77920
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-01-23 05:04:36 Last modified:2008-01-23 07:04:36
Access level:the public Released:2008-01-23 05:04:36
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

26300.1% 4740R. Uchimura and R. Majima. 1992. The mixed sea area of warm- and cold-water molluscs of the Japanese early Middle Miocene - The case study in the Furanui Formation, mid-Hokkaido, Japan. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 98(12):1129-1144 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]