Loc. 1, Taihei River [Tentokuji Fm]: Pliocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Robaia robai
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Propebela sp. Iredale 1918
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Buccinum sp. Linnaeus 1758
3 specimens
Neptunea (Neptunea) cf. eos
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Sareptidae
Portlandia (Portlandella) toyamaensis
4 specimens
reassigned as Megayoldia (Portlandella)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Clinocardium (Cilatocardium) sp. Keen 1936
4 specimens
Serripes sp. Gould 1841
4 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 39.8° North, 140.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.5° North, 139.6° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pliocene Nannofossil zone: NN16
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Tentokuji
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Akita Fm, which overlie the Funakawa Fm, and is overlain by the Sasaoka Fm. AGE: Middle Pliocene, on the basis of foraminiferal and calcareous nanofossil biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the "middle" member of the formation, near the top of the section.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine poorly lithified sandstone
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Fine-grained sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Poorly-lithified, based on figured specimens.
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Both cold- and warm-water species found. Shallow warm-water currents over the cold-water mass is suggested.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Not stated in text, but presumably including K. Amano et al. REPOSITORY: Not stated in text. Possibly Joetsu University or Akita University.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive of mollusca. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:97075
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-07-17 15:56:25 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2010-07-17 15:56:25
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

33142. K. Amano, M. Suzuki, and T. Sato. 2000. Warm-water influx into Japan Sea in the middle Pliocene - Molluscan faunas from the Tentokuji FOrmation around Mt. Taihei in Akita Prefecture. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 106(4):299-306 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]