Toyora, Dactylioceras helianthoides zone, Locality (10) Nishinagato V. 5d (Jurassic of Japan)

Where: Yamaguchi, Japan (34.3° N, 131.0° E: paleocoordinates 44.9° N, 138.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Nb Member (Nishinakayama Formation), Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)

• Locality belongs to the Dactylioceras helanthoides zone. The Nishinakayama Fm attains about 300m in maximum thickness, and is lithostratigraphically subdivided into three members, namely Na, Nb (black shales with intercalations of fine sandstone; 160m thick), and Nc in upward sequence.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale and sandstone

• Lower to Middle Jurassic shallow marine (partly brackish?) clastic deposits
• clayey shale and sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K. Tanabe. 1991. Early Jurrasic Macrofauna of the Oxygen-Depleted Epicontinental Marin Basin in the Toyora Area, West Japan. Saito Ho-on Kai Special Publication 3:147-161 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 38203: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 19.04.2004

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Posidoniidae
Bositra sp. De Gregorio 1886 oyster
sp. B
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Dactylioceratidae
Dactylioceras sp. Hyatt 1867 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Hildoceratidae
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Lytoceras "sp. A" Suess 1865 ammonite
sp. A
 Belemnoida -
Belemnoida indet. Gray 1849 belemnite