Locality No. 30. Road side cutting near Koeiji Temple, Otani, Suzu City (Miocene of Japan)

Where: Japan (37.5° N, 137.2° E: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 134.4° E)

When: Fujio Member (Higashi-lnnai Formation), Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• early Middle to middle Middle Miocene.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; limestone

• Granule to pebble conglomerate of subrounded pebbles or conglomeratic very coarse-grained sandstone filling the rounded boulders (Lower): medium grained sandstone (Upper).

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K. Masuda. 1967. Molluscan Fauna of the Higashi Innai Formation in the Noto Peninsula, Japan III; Description of new species and remarks of some species. Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan, New Series 65:1-18 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176558: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 17.02.2016

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Potamididae
Cerithidea ohiroi n. sp. horn snail
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Cerithium ancisum cerith snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Littorinidae
"Littorinopsis miodelicatula" = Littoraria (Littorinopsis)
"Littorinopsis miodelicatula" = Littoraria (Littorinopsis) periwinkle
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Cypraea ohiroi n. sp. Masuda 1967 cowry
 Sorbeoconcha - Eratoidae
Proterato minoensis Itoigawa 1960 snail
 Neogastropoda - Costellariidae
Vexillum setsukoae ribbed mitre
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus tokunagai cone shell
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
 Neogastropoda - Mitridae
Mitra ishidae mitre shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Rissoidae
 Epitonioidea - Epitoniidae
"Nodiscala suzuensis n. sp." = Opalia (Nodiscala)
"Nodiscala suzuensis n. sp." = Opalia (Nodiscala) wentletrap
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
"Pachycrommium japonicum" = Pachycrommium harrisi
"Pachycrommium japonicum" = Pachycrommium harrisi Pannekoek 1936 snail
 Pseudomelanoidea - Pseudomelaniidae
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
 Neritoidea - Neritidae
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Ungulinidae
"Felaniella ferruginata" = Diplodonta
"Felaniella ferruginata" = Diplodonta clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
 Arcida - Arcidae
Foraminifera
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
Operculina complanata
Operculina complanata japonica